Small Game Hunting at the Local Cowar..., Megan Gail Coles
Small Game Hunting at the Local Cowar..., Megan Gail Coles
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Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club

Author: Megan Gail Coles

Narrator: Megan Gail Coles

Unabridged: 12 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/03/2020


Synopsis

#1 National Bestseller
Finalist, CBC Canada Reads
Finalist, Scotiabank Giller PrizeBy turns savage, biting, funny, poetic, and heartbreaking, Megan Gail Coles’s debut novel rips into the inner lives of a wicked cast of characters, exposing class, gender, and racial tensions over the course of one Valentine’s Day in the dead of a winter storm.Valentine’s 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 winter’s tale.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David

The epigraph reads "This might hurt a little - be brave." Lord thunderin' Jesus there is dark stuff ahead rendered in some of the most compelling prose I've read from this year's Giller shortlist. Jaw-dropping at times. It's Valentines Day at the Hazel in downtown St. John's Newfoundland and no one i......more

Goodreads review by Enid

The publisher blurb refers to this, among other things, as biting, and funny. Biting, yes. Funny, no, not in the least. There is terrible trauma - brutality - here, and my heart bleeds for the lives of Olive and Iris… Olive in particular. But the narration keeps the reader at such a distance that I a......more

Goodreads review by Darryl

FINAL REVIEW: The epigraph said "This might hurt a little. Be brave." No, this hurt A LOT. If you’re looking for the most “Me Too” book you’ll ever come across; that dissects toxic masculinity in true takedown type fashion, HERE YOU GO: How does one categorize Small Game Hunting? Is it a tragedy? A c......more

Goodreads review by Krista

This is not infatuation. This is small game hunting at the local coward gun club. And what is worse, as every stroke of recognition is finally delivered hard against Iris's hurt timepiece, is that all was lost the moment she opened the door and let him step across the threshold. He wanted her less......more

Goodreads review by Debbie

I enjoy many books, but only a few register at a deep enough level to change me as a human. This is one of those. It is a wonder of a book, full of magic. I adore the fluidity of Megan Gail Coles' style, how she moves from external to internal, personal to collective, dialogue to action with no need......more