Somewhere between Hold Fast and Transporting, there is a crevice for Keith Kavanagh, the turbulent central character of Down to the Dirt. With Gritty accounts of sexual depravity, pyromania, abortion as a means of birth control, and the botched mercy killing of a poisoned cat, this dark and comic sequential novel charts the escapades of Keith from his early teens, coming of age in small town Newfoundland - to his early twenties, trapped in a hellish basement apartment in St. John's - to eventually wandering the streets of Halifax in a demented, drunken hunt for his estranged girlfriend. Down to the Dirt's ever elusive, hard-edged cast of characters present a humorous and outrageous portrayal of what it means to exist in the oftentimes vicious and muddy world of today's youth. Winner of the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Associations' Percy Janes First Novel Award.