Description
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
Author: Sydney Hegele
Publisher: Invisible Publishing
Published: 09/07/2021
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.80h x 4.96w x 0.47d
ISBN13: 9781988784793
ISBN10: 1988784794
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Magical Realism
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | General
- Fiction | Literary