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Fiction Crime

Ten-Eighty

by (author) Allan Davis

Publisher
Iguana Books
Initial publish date
Mar 2023
Category
Crime, Family Life, Literary
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781771805971
    Publish Date
    Mar 2023
    List Price
    $9.99

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Description

As 14-year-old-Katria watches her father, Ivan, step-by-step sweep his spray of poison brew back to front over the lawn, she imagines the little creatures beneath the fall of his steel- toed boots curling up dead the minute he passes. She imagines his poison percolating through the soil and travelling underground to his patch of rhubarb stalks that he stewed in pots and forced Moms to eat in large quantities to make her lose weight. Then, Katria can hardly believe the voice she hears coming from her mother’s grave: “HE POISONED ME. GET EVEN.”

About the author

Al Davis grew up in rural Ontario. He quit school at sixteen and moved to Toronto, where he worked at various dead-end jobs until, at twenty-six, he returned to school. He completed a B.A. in English literature and an M.A. in Religious Studies. He was two years through a Master’s in Divinity when he switched to the Bachelor in Education program and became a high school teacher.

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