Alligator

Lisa Moores wickedly fresh first novela Canadian best seller winner of theCommonwealth Writers Prize Canadian and Caribbean region and a Globe andMail Book of t... » 

Lisa Moores wickedly fresh first novela Canadian best seller winner of theCommonwealth Writers Prize Canadian and Caribbean region and a Globe andMail Book of the Yearmoves with the swiftness of an alligator in attack modethrough the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters mingling incontemporary St. Johns Newfoundland. St. Johns is a city whose spirituallocation is somewhere in the heart of Flannery OConnor country. Its denizensjostle one another in uneasy arabesques of desire greed and ambitionjuxtaposed with a yearning for purity depth and redemption. Colleen is aseventeenyearold wouldbe ecoterrorist drawn inexorably to the places wherealligators thrive. Her mother Beverly is cloaked in grief after the death ofher husband. Beverlys sister Madeleine is a driven aging filmmaker whoobsesses over completing her magnum opus before she dies. And Frank a youngman whose life is a strange anthology of unpredictable dangers is desperate toprotect his hotdog stand from sociopathic Russian sailor Valentin whosepredatory tendencies threaten everyone he encounters. Alligator is aremarkable book a suspenseful heartfelt and sexy story that examines theruthlessly reptilian and painfully human sides of all of us. «