Taking Down Names
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In a darkly humorous and thrilling exploration of vengeance and grief, a journalist must unravel a twisting story of vigilante justice amidst her own personal tragedy.
In modern-day Newfoundland and Labrador, journalist Jacky Careen struggles to find meaning in her work and life after her sister Mia becomes a victim of sexual cyberviolence and later, takes her own life.
As Jacky continues to report local news, dark karmic parallels begin to emerge: a man known for trolling victims of car accidents drives off a cliff, a homophobe dies in a closet, an incel who refers to women as trash falls into an illegal dumping zone. At first, Jacky believes only she notices these coincidences, but as the deaths continue, Jacky must confront the story unraveling before her.
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Bridget Canning's debut novel, The Greatest Hits of Wanda Jaynes, was selected as a finalist for the BMO Winterset Award, the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award, the NL Fiction Award, and was longlisted for the Dublin International Literary Award. Her second novel, Some People's Children, was a finalist for the BMO Winterset Award and the Thomas Raddall Award. In the same year, she received the CBC Emerging Artist Award with ArtsNL. Her third book and first short story collection, No One Knows About Us, was published by Breakwater Books in the fall of 2022. It was named a finalist for the 2023 Alistair MacLeod Award and won the NL Book Award for Fiction. Bridget holds a Masters of Arts in Creative Writing from Memorial University and a Masters of Literacy Education from Mount Saint Vincent University. She grew up in Highlands, NL, and currently lives in St. John's.