Debris

**Finalist for the 2016 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize**

**Nominated for the 2015 Danuta Gleed Literary Award**

**One of *Quill & Quire’s* Books of the Year, 2015**

**One of 49th Shelf's Books of the Year, 2015**

The eleven remarkable stories in Kevin Hardcastle’s debut *Debris* introduce an authentic new voice. Written in a lean and muscular style and brimming with both violence and compassion, these stories unflinchingly explore the lives of those — MMA fighters, the institutionalized, small-town criminals — who exist on the fringes of society, unveiling the blood and guts and beauty of life in our flyover regions.