Alligator

A novel that “does for Newfoundland what  Empire Falls  did for dying smalltown Maine and  The Sportswriter  did for suburban New Jersey” ( Publishers Weekly ).   Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and a Globe and Mail Book of the Year   St. John’s, Newfoundland, is a city whose spiritual location is somewhere in the heart of Flannery O’Connor country. Its denizens jostle one another in uneasy arabesques of desire, greed, and ambition, juxtaposed with a yearn