LE3 .A278 2009

2009

Wyile, Andrea Schwenke

Acadia University

Bachelor of Arts

Honours

English

English & Theatre Studies

Face and Finger is a novella eight chapters in length. The story addresses the themes of desperation, community and brotherhood as it follows the lives of two misfit pig farmers, Face and Finger. These half-brothers, though united by their struggle to deal with labels and the condemnation of their home community, are also split by their alternate ideas of how to cope with being regional pariahs. One brother, Face, struggles fruitlessly with escape, devotion and madness, while the other, Finger, is torn between his loyalty to his brother and his dream of acceptance. The dynamic becomes even more dangerous when Neil, a childhood friend of theirs, attempts to deal with his own community fostered feelings of emasculation. Suddenly wrapped up in a spiraling descent from violence to murder, Neil and Finger must confront their own fears and resist their mounting feelings of helplessness before Face’s pursuit consumes them all in a hellish blaze.

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