Urban Grit
AN UPDATED LIST (2017): We called out to friends on Twitter and Facebook to provide us with Canadian books memorable for their depiction of "urban grit": books concerned with the darker, seedier, dirtier, sordid, sometimes violent, sometimes sexual, often exciting side of city life. Here's the list.
Brother
The Break
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
Scarborough
De Niro's Game
Light Lifting
The Dead Are More Visible
By Gaslight
The Nightingales
All We Want is Everything
Circle of Stones
Debris
Anatomy of a Girl Gang
Lullabies for Little Criminals
The City Still Breathing
Carnival
Heroes
How to Get Along With Women
Short Stories
Confidence
How Poetry Saved My Life
A Hustler's Memoir