This debut novel challenges the social stigma attached to such altered states and traces the effects of physical violation and psychic trauma. In short, a remarkable first novel. By Bonnie Bowman Salacious, funny, and painfully emotive, Skin is a provocative and ruminative parable about our deep-rooted urge to ostracize the freakish and shun the disfigured among us. An unconventional love story, Bowman probes the surface to reveal deeper, more lingering impulses connected to desire, understanding, and love. It is only on very extraordinary occasions when beauty and the beast get together, but they do here.
Skin is a cutting and startling debut novel.
Jack Minyard might have some answers, but then again a hard-drinkin' night shift bus driver named Lomas sees a lot of things that he doesn't always talk about . . . A blackly comic new novel from Vancouver author Grant Buday, based on his eight glorious years working in a mass production bakery. Dickensian in magnitude, White Lung is a sardonic portrait of B.C.'s racial conflicts and chaotic economy. A rollicking black comedy of errors with a host of unforgettable characters. Rarely has there been a novel as astute about life on the punch clock.