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It has been my great fortune to have the aforementioned team at Anansi behind Alligator because of their expertise and passion for writing and because I have also become friends with them and I am thankful for that. I am grateful to Bill Douglas for Alligator’s beautiful jacket design.

Thank you to my agent, Anne McDermid, for, among many other things, her friendship.

These are the people who offered their valuable reading time, friendship, considerable knowledge, and love of writing while simultaneously holding off the men in white lab coats, at least until the novel was finished: Mary-Lynn Bernard, Libby Creelman, Eva Crocker, Rosemary Crocker, Stephen Crocker, Susan Crocker, Michael Crummey, Ramona Dearing, Barbara Doran, Gail Faurschau, Holly Hogan, Bob Howard, Dr. John Lewis, Mary Lewis, Lawrence Mathews, Sourayan Mookerjea, Elizabeth Moore, Lynn Moore, Susan O’Brien, Beth Ryan, Rose Smart, Medina Stacey, and everyone in the Burning Rock.

Michael Winter, Nan Love, and Claire Wilkshire went way beyond the call of duty and I am forever indebted to them.

I would also like to thank the Canada Council for the Arts and Memorial University of Newfoundland for having me as writer-in-residence, thereby providing the necessary financial assistance for the writing life.

About the Author

LISA MOORE is the acclaimed author of the novels Alligator, which was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, winner of the Commonwealth Prize for Canada and the Caribbean, and a national bestseller; and February, which was a national bestseller and a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. Her story collection Open was also a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a national bestseller, and it won the Canadian Authors Association Jubilee Award. Lisa Moore lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

About the publisher

House of Anansi Press was founded in 1967 with a mandate to publish Canadian-authored books, a mandate that continues to this day even as the list has branched out to include internationally acclaimed thinkers and writers. The press immediately gained attention for significant titles by notable writers such as Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, George Grant, and Northrop Frye. Since then, Anansi’s commitment to finding, publishing and promoting challenging, excellent writing has won it tremendous acclaim and solid staying power. Today Anansi is Canada’s pre-eminent independent press, and home to nationally and internationally bestselling and acclaimed authors such as Gil Adamson, Margaret Atwood, Ken Babstock, Peter Behrens, Rawi Hage, Misha Glenny, Jim Harrison, A. L. Kennedy, Pasha Malla, Lisa Moore, A. F. Moritz, Eric Siblin, Karen Solie, and Ronald Wright. Anansi is also proud to publish the award-winning nonfiction series The CBC Massey Lectures. In 2007 and 2009 Anansi was honoured by the Canadian Booksellers Association as “Publisher of the Year.”

Table of Contents

Cover Page

Openers

1. Colleen

2. Frank

3. Colleen

4. Beverly

5. Colleen

6. Beverly

7. Madeleine

8. Beverly

9. Colleen

10. Beverly

11. Frank

12. Colleen

13. Valentin

14. Colleen

15. Frank

16. Madeleine

17. Beverly

18. Valentin

19. Mr. Duffy

20. Colleen

21. Madeleine

22. Frank

23. Madeleine

24. Colleen

25. Madeleine

26. Frank

27. Madeleine

28. Colleen

29. Mr. Duffy

30. Madeleine

31. Frank

32. Madeleine

33. Valentin

34. Colleen

35. Madeleine

36. Colleen

37. Frank

38. Colleen

39. Frank

40. Colleen

41. Isobel

42. Madeleine

43. Frank

44. Colleen

45. Madeleine

46. Beverly

47. Loyola

48. Madeleine

49. Colleen

50. Frank

51. Kevin

52. Frank

53. Valentin

54. Frank

55. Colleen

56. Frank

57. Carol

58. Frank

59. Isobel

60. Frank

61. Isobel

62. Madeleine

Acknowledgements

About the Author

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