The Pump
Paperback | English
By (author): Sydney Hegele Sydney Warner Brooman
Winner of the 2022 ReLit Awards
Finalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award
A Gothic collection of stories featuring carnivorous beavers, art-eaters, and family intrigue, for fans of Alice Munro and Shirley Jackson
The small southern Ontario town known as The Pump lies at the crossroads of this world''s violence-a tainted water supply, an apathetic municipal government, the Gothic decay of rural domesticity-and another''s.
In Hegele''s interconnected stories, no one is immune to The Pump''s sacrificial games. Lighthouse dwellers, Boy Scouts, queer church camp leaders, love-sick and sick-sick writers, nine-year-old hunters, art-eaters-each must navigate the swamp of their own morality while living on land that is always slowly (and sometimes very quickly) killing them.
An inescapable, ferocious dream of a book. Good luck getting out. -John Elizabeth Stintzi, author of Vanishing Monuments
[The] writing is beautiful... Nightmarish and yet somehow fantastical. -This Magazine
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