Leaving Defiance Bay

About the Book

“It’s a Pacific Northwest novel to its very core, so much that its culinary counterpart would have to be something like grilled salmon…A hard-earned comic outlook pervades the book, as does an intimate knowledge of Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula”
--The Tacoma News Tribune

“A solid tale of Seattle’s literary demimonde…Dialogue before and behind the bar is as it should be: smoky, loud, tense with flirtation…A ‘quiet little literary novel’ of the kind large publishers don’t like to deal with much anymore.”
--The Sunday Oregonian

“Davis has a knack for creating believable, three-dimensional characters in the space of a few lines…a powerful first novel. Highly recommended.”
--Library Journal

“It’s a good book- sardonic, self-lacerating, often elegant. Elsewhere, read some of Mr. Davis’s highly intelligent and often witty and mordant poetry.”
The Providence Journal

“I’ve wasted time”, she mumbled, lowering her face, tipping her wine glass to her lips with a lethargic twist of her hands. She lowered the glass, looked up at me and murmured, “Want to go to Mexico? I can be beautiful.”

About the Author

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