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A01=Nathan Whitlock
Author_Nathan Whitlock
breast cancer
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city life
cringe comedy
dark comedy
domestic life
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family comedy
family drama
family life
income disparity
infidelity
mothers
parents
satire
sexual assault
Toronto fiction
toxic masculinity
upper middle class
urban life

Product details

  • ISBN 9781459751286
  • Weight: 382g
  • Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Sep 2023
  • Publisher: Dundurn Group Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: CA
  • Product Form: Paperback
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A dark, satiric novel about a woman whose attempt to escape crises in her health and marriage ends up causing more chaos.

Cat's career has stalled, her marriage has gone flat, and being a stay-at-home mom for two young kids has become a grind. When she finds out, all within a few days, that she is pregnant, that a lump in her breast is the worst thing it could be, and that her husband has done something unforgivably repulsive, she responds by running away from her marriage and her life — a life that, on the outside, looks like middle-class success. Her actions send waves of chaos through the lives of multiple characters, including a struggling house cleaner, a rich and charismatic yoga guru, and even an ailing dog. What follows is a dark comedy about marriage, motherhood, privilege, and power.

A RARE MACHINES BOOK

Nathan Whitlock is the author of the novels A Week of This and Congratulations On Everything. His work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, Best Canadian Essays, and elsewhere. He lives with his family in Hamilton, Ontario.

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