DebrisWinner of the 2016 Trillium Book Award Finalist for the 2016 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Nominated for the 2015 Danuta Gleed Literary Award One of Quill & Quire’s Books of the Year, 2015 One of 49th Shelf's Books of the Year, 2015 The eleven remarkable stories in Kevin Hardcastle’s debut Debris introduce an authentic new voice. Written in a lean and muscular style and brimming with both violence and compassion, these stories unflinchingly explore the lives of those — MMA fighters, the institutionalized, small-town criminals — who exist on the fringes of society, unveiling the blood and guts and beauty of life in our flyover regions. |
Contents
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| 25 | |
Montana Border | 41 |
To Have to Wait | 61 |
Bandits | 85 |
One We Could Stand to Lose | 117 |
Spread Low on the Fields | 131 |
Hunted by Coyotes | 147 |
Shape of a Sitting Man | 179 |
Debris | 189 |
Most of the Houses had Lost their Lights | 209 |
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