Alligator by Lisa Moore. (House of Anansi, 2005. 288 pp., $19.95)

This is not the poetic and stylistic East Coast prose landscape of Alistair McLeod. Emerging from the heavy language-laden shadow of traditional Eastern Canadian writing, Alligator is a shifty and patchy, engaging narrative, cobbling together incidents and perspectives in bursts and fits.

Moore rotates through characters in small vignettes that increase in pace and brevity as the text progresses. The main focus courses through Colleen, a young girl spiraling outward into her own instinctual destruction. The novel opens with a description of a safety video Colleen's aunt had made in which an alligator bites a man's head after ...

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