Broken

<p>Until that fateful afternoon Skunk Cunningham had been a normal little girl playing on the curb in front of her house. Rick Buck-ley had been a normal geeky teen-ager hosing off his brand-new car. Bob Oswald had been a normal sociopathic single father of five slutty daughters charging furiously down the side-walk. Then Bob was beating Rick to a bloody pulp right there in the Buckleys' driveway and life on Drummond Square was never the same again.</p><p>Inspired by Harper Lee's classic <em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em> Clay's brilliantly observed and darkly funny novel follows the sudden unraveling of a sub-urban community after a single act of thoughtless cruelty.</p>