The Pump

Name: The Pump
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By Sydney Hegele

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The Pump is a gothic collection of interconnected stories set in a small southern Ontario town bearing the same name. The town sits at the crossroads of violence, decay, and complex human morality, all reflected through its tainted water supply and indifferent municipal government. Sydney Hegele explores a cast of characters ranging from lighthouse dwellers to queer church camp leaders and art-eaters, each caught in the town's sacrificial games and struggling with their own dark realities in a haunting, atmospheric world.
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Ideal for readers who appreciate literary speculative fiction with a gothic edge, fans of Alice Munro and Shirley Jackson, and those drawn to atmospheric, morally complex stories.

"A gothic collection of stories set in a fictional Ontario town called The Pump"--

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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

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781988784793

Publisher: Invisible Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 October 2021

Country: Canada

Imprint: Invisible Publishing

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 176

Collections

Fantasy Fiction General Fiction Sci-Fi & Fantasy Sydney Hegele

About the Author

Sydney Hegele (née 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.