Urban Disturbances
The Porcupine’s Quill
“In his engrossing, cut-diamond collection of 18 finely observed short stories, Bruce McDougall captures with a tough-minded empathy the existential plights of the anonymous low and vainglorious high, the innocent and venal,
the fragile and incorrigible, the petty and profound.”
James FitzGerald, author of What Disturbs Our Blood:
A Son’s Quest to Redeem the Past, winner of the
2010 Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize
Bruce McDougall’s skilful short stories sketch a warts-and-all portrait of humanity, illuminating the mysterious forces that drive people to behave in unique—and uniquely human—ways. In Urban Disturbances ordinary characters reveal through their stories the infinite possibilities of our common humanity.