Ditch
Ditch is a subversive, compelling portrait of a young man's plunge into adulthood, set in Toronto, Buffalo and the suburbs of Maryland. Niedzviecki's prose quickly dumps you into the head of Ditch, awkward, aimless, endearing — still living with his mom, driving a delivery van to get by — and into the rather more complicated mind, diary, e-mail and website of a young runaway who moves into the upstairs apartment. Debs is beautiful, tortured and much projected upon, largely because of the kind of pictures of herself she puts up on her website. Both she and Ditch are searching for absent pasts and possible futures, and Debs is on the run from something particularly nasty.
Ditch is a sudden stumble into…
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January 14, 2011Known for his provocative fiction and penetrating cultural criticism, Hal Niedzviecki is an acclaimed author, and the founder and current fiction editor of Broken Pencil, the magazine of zine culture and the independent arts. A National Magazine Award–winner, he is a contributor of short stories and essays to many periodicals in Canada and the United States. The Program is his third novel.
