{"product_id":"the-pump-9781988784793","title":"The Pump","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 ReLit Awards\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Gothic collection of stories featuring carnivorous beavers, \u003cbr\u003eart-eaters, and family intrigue, for fans of Alice Munro and Shirley \u003cbr\u003eJackson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe small southern Ontario town known as The Pump lies at the \u003cbr\u003ecrossroads of this world's violence--a tainted water supply, an apathetic\u003cbr\u003e municipal government, the Gothic decay of rural domesticity--and \u003cbr\u003eanother's.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Hegele's interconnected stories, no one is immune to The Pump's \u003cbr\u003esacrificial games. Lighthouse dwellers, Boy Scouts, queer church camp \u003cbr\u003eleaders, love-sick and sick-sick writers, nine-year-old hunters, \u003cbr\u003eart-eaters--each must navigate the swamp of their own morality while \u003cbr\u003eliving on land that is always slowly (and sometimes very quickly) \u003cbr\u003ekilling them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An inescapable, ferocious dream of a book. Good luck getting out.\"\u003cb\u003e--John Elizabeth Stintzi, author of \u003ci\u003eVanishing Monuments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[The] writing is beautiful... Nightmarish and yet somehow fantastical.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThis Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrooman, Sydney Warner:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSydney Warner Brooman\u003c\/b\u003e (they\/them) was raised in Grimsby, Ontario. They attended Western University in London, Ontario, and currently live in Toronto. \u003ci\u003eThe Pump\u003c\/i\u003e is their debut short fiction collection. Their story \"The Bottom\" was shortlisted for \u003ci\u003eThe Malahat Review's\u003c\/i\u003e 2020 Open Season Awards, and they have recent work in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Chordata\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThorn Literary Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e and other literary journals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Invisible Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525669228818,"sku":"9781988784793","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b06f44e0-46ce-4a00-b05e-80da70b8874e.jpg?v=1731231789","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-pump-9781988784793","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}