The Pump
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
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
ISBN: 9781988784793
About the Author
Brooman, Sydney Warner: -
Sydney Warner Brooman (they/them) was raised in Grimsby, Ontario. They attended Western University in London, Ontario, and currently live in Toronto. The Pump is their debut short fiction collection. Their story "The Bottom" was shortlisted for The Malahat Review's 2020 Open Season Awards, and they have recent work in American Chordata, Thorn Literary Magazine, and other literary journals.