Cerberus is Toronto author Rai Berzin’s first book, but his name is a familiar one. Stories in the collection have appeared in Grain, Fiddlehead, IslandSide, Malahat Review, Matrix, and The New Quarterly. “Towards Dierdre’s” won the 1991 Carl Sentner Award, and “Common Sense” was selected for the 1991 Journey Prize Anthology.