Night Town
- Publisher
- Iguana Books
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2013
- Category
- Coming of Age, Lesbian, Urban Life
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781927403648
- Publish Date
- Apr 2013
- List Price
- $9.99
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Description
When tragedy strikes, thirteen-year-old Maddy Barnes's life shatters. Torn from her family and village, she finds herself out on the mean streets of Toronto in the 1970s, a gritty twilight world of street kids, speed freaks, glam rockers, body rub parlours and a vicious biker named Hermann. But Toronto is also the centre of Canada's emerging gay revolution. As men and women start coming out of the shadows, Maddy confronts the shadows of her own past, and ultimately comes to understand that sometimes there's no explaining the unspeakable things we do for love.
About the author
Cathi Bond has written extensively about contemporary culture, worked in television, was a columnist on CBC Radio's DNTO, and is a regular contributor to Spark. She is also one of Canada's podcast pioneers. Night Town, which has been optioned by Back Alley Films, is her first novel. Follow her on www.cathibond.com