Winters, before the paving of the neighborhood streets, when rain and snowmelt gathered in long puddles, or froze into broad ruts of broken ice and slush, the alley was a shortcut ...
Deni Ellis Béchard
Deni Ellis Béchard is the author of five books: Vandal Love, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize; Cures for Hunger, a memoir about his father, who robbed banks; Of Bonobos and Men, winner of the Nautilus Book Award for investigative journalism; Kuei, a book of nonfiction that he cowrote about racism against First Nations people in Canada. He recently published Into the Sun, a novel about the civilian surge in Afghanistan. 