num_pages: 440
description: #1 National BestsellerFinalist CBC Canada ReadsFinalist Scotiabank Giller PrizeBy turns savage biting funny poetic and heartbreaking Megan Gail Coless debut novel rips into the inner lives of a wicked cast of characters exposing class gender and racial tensions over the course of one Valentines Day in the dead of a winter storm.Valentines Day the longest day of the year.A fierce blizzard is threatening to tear a strip off the city while inside The Hazel restaurant a storm system of sex betrayal addiction and hurt is breaking overhead. Iris a young hostess is forced to pull a double despite resolving to avoid the charming chef and his wealthy restaurateur wife. Just tables over Damian a hungover and self-loathing server is trying to navigate a potential punch-up with a pair of lit customers who remain oblivious to the rising temperature in the dining room. Meanwhile Olive a young woman far from her northern home watches it all unfurl from the fast and frozen street.Through rolling blackouts we glimpse the truth behind the shroud of scathing lies and unrelenting abuse and discover that resilience proves most enduring in the dead of this winters tale.
language: English
title: Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
publisher: House of Anansi Press