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Alligator: A Novel | Lisa Moore
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Lisa Moore’s wickedly fresh first novel—a Canadian best seller, winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Canadian and Caribbean region), and a Globe and Mail Book of the Year—moves with the swiftness of an alligator in attack mode through the lives of a group of brilliantly rendered characters mingling in contemporary St. John’s, Newfoundland. St. John’s 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 yearning for purity, depth, and redemption. Colleen is a seventeen-year-old would-be ecoterrorist, drawn inexorably to the places where alligators thrive. Her mother, Beverly, is cloaked in grief after the death of her husband. Beverly’s sister, Madeleine, is a driven, aging filmmaker who obsesses over completing her magnum opus before she dies. And Frank, a young man whose life is a strange anthology of unpredictable dangers, is desperate to protect his hot-dog stand from sociopathic Russian sailor Valentin, whose predatory tendencies threaten everyone he encounters. Alligator is a remarkable book, a suspenseful, heartfelt, and sexy story that examines the ruthlessly reptilian and painfully human sides of all of us.
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Kazzie
Alligator: A Novel | Lisa Moore
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Fantastic! She captures authentic voice so well. Writes in that sparse, nuanced Newfoundland way. Highly recommend

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TheBookStacker
Alligator: A Novel | Lisa Moore
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Met this dude today out in the swamps. Now time to watch them gators play basketball even though my bracket is busted! Hope all my Littens are having a wonderful Sunday!

RadicalReader @TheBookStacker what an awesome sight to see how cool is seeing and enjoying natures beauty 8y
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JasonMetz
Alligator: A Novel | Lisa Moore
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One of my favorite reads in recent years, an excellent read in terms of multiple POVs that spans generations, each voice distinct and clear as their lives intersect with one another.

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mcctrish
Alligator: A Novel | Lisa Moore
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I got these 3 at a charity book sale today for $5. 2/3 is Can lit and #winwin