Toni Davidson

Scar Culture

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest originality mixed with the divine audacity of William Burroughs and Irvine Welsh.

Thought-provoking, erotic, sharp-witted, and totally riveting, Scar Culture marks the debut of a groundbreaking writer. With the power of the spoken word and the authenticity of a research document, Scar Culture follows the lives of Click, Fright, and their dysfunctional therapist Sad. Using experimental, dangerous techniques, Sad tries to bring Click and Fright out of the stupor to which they have succumbed from childhood abuse. Tempering the story with the darkest humor, Toni Davidson makes us confront the meaning of being human in this challenge to psychotherapy.

"Toni Davidson's book springs on to the scene with "cult classic" written all over it. . . . Compelling. . . . A novel of ideas that is also humanly involving. . . . As good as Irvine Welsh."—[London] Times Literary Supplement

"Like William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Scar Culture is a book not to read, but to reread."—[Glasgow] Sunday Herald