The Violence Almanac Theater a claim that no one

a claim that no one in her life will accept--except for her single mother

"--Mackenzi Lee

life seems to be looking up

left for her father on the kitchen table

His remarkable gut instincts and relentless detective work have put him on a three-year fast track to becoming an inspector

The Violence Almanac Theater a claim that no oneIn THE VIOLENCE ALMANAC, Miah Jeffra complicates the boundaries between culture and nature, fiction and true crime, desire and pain. In this powerful fiction debut, Jeffra takes us through the California landscape to map the various ways that violence emerges, terrorizes and shapes our most familiar social structures. An ostracized child yearns to be the hero for a rural community threatened by an escaped penitentiary inmate. An ambitious young writer