<P>We may be lost but we are never alone. That is the message to be found in Brenda Hasiuks new collection of short stories, <EM>Boy Lost in Wild</EM>. Adrift in unfamiliar surroundings, strangers to the strangers around them, the characters in each story feel lost even though they are inextricably tied to one another. A foreign student, mugged on the streets of Winnipeg, befriends his landlord. A young man bursting with rage shares a quiet moment with a sibling. The tears of a child who cannot find his way home are soothed by the voice of an elderly woman.</P>\n<P>Through sparkling prose, Hasiuks stories ring true, cutting through the alienation of urban life and lighting the threads that bind us to one another.</P>