Dancehall Road

By Marion Douglas format: trade paperback publication: June 2008 ISBN: 9781897178553

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Set in 1970, Dance Hall Road examines adolescence and adulthood, friendship and family within the ricochet of events through small-town life. When the death of another high school student pushes the town of Minnow Lake into collective despair, harsh gossip and casually dropped pellets of blame take seed. Currents of anger and frustration are, in turn, meted out in the scapegoating of those who are decidedly different.

Told through two narratives in parallel time, we simultaneously follow the chronology of rural life, death, and sexuality. With a keen sense of human experience, Marion Douglas portrays her characters with unflinching empathy. Evocative and multi-layered, Dance Hall Road invokes the contradictions of connection within the tenuous balance of regret and hope.

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