I am from Halifax, saltwater city, a place of silted genius, sudden women, figures floating in all waters.
โPeople from Halifax are all famous,โ my sister Faith has said. โBecause everyone in Halifax knows each otherโs business.โ
From basement rec rooms to midnight railway tracks, Action Transfers to Smarties boxes crammed with joints,
from Paul McCartney on the kitchen radio to their furious teenaged cover of The Ramones, Aubrey McKee and his
familiars navigate late adolescence amidst the old-monied decadence of Halifax. An arcana of oddball angels, Alex
Pugsleyโs long-awaited debut novel follows rich-kid drug dealers and junior tennis brats, รฉmigrรฉ heart surgeons and
small-time thugs, renegade private school girls and runaway children as they try to make sense of the city into which
theyโve been born. Part coming-of-age-story, part social chronicle, and part study of the myths that define our growing
up, Aubrey McKee introduces a breathtakingly original new voice