{"product_id":"small-game-hunting-at-the-local-coward-gun-club-9781487001711","title":"Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e#1 National Bestseller\u003cbr\u003eFinalist, CBC Canada Reads\u003cbr\u003eFinalist, Scotiabank Giller Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eValentine's Day, the longest day of the year. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eColes, Megan Gail:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMEGAN GAIL COLES is a graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland and the National Theatre School of Canada, and she has recently completed a Masters of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia. She has written and produced numerous plays. Her first fiction collection, \u003cem\u003eEating Habits of the Chronically Lonesome\u003c\/em\u003e, won the BMO Winterset Award, the ReLit Award, and the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, and it earned her the one-time Writers' Trust 5x5 prize. \u003cem\u003eSmall Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club\u003c\/em\u003e, her debut novel, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Originally from Savage Cove on the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland, Megan currently resides in Montreal, where she is a Ph.D. candidate at Concordia University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"House of Anansi Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50478153105682,"sku":"9781487001711","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cdb38efe-d06b-4954-b54a-a28223388ff7.jpg?v=1730285748","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/small-game-hunting-at-the-local-coward-gun-club-9781487001711","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}