Cataract City A Novel by Craig Davidson

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On the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, life beyond the tourist trade isn't easy. Locals like Duncan Diggs and Owen Stuckey have few chances to leave. For Duncan, that means shift work on a production line. For Owen, it means pinning it all on a shot at college basketball. But they should know better; they've been unlucky before. As boys, they were. Davidson makes Cataract City itself a character, and brilliantly evokes life in a gritty industrial town the men and women smell like their respective product lines at the local Nabisco factory, and drink at the same bleak bars their entire lives. Although Davidson takes a few small missteps as children, the boys have confusingly similar nicknames, and some plot points strain credulity the characters, audacious sweep of the story, and propulsive noir writing make this novel a standout.