The Pump - by Sydney Warner Brooman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A Gothic collection of stories featuring carnivorous beavers, <br>art-eaters, and family intrigue, for fans of Alice Munro and Shirley <br>Jackson</b></p><br><p>The small southern Ontario town known as The Pump lies at the <br>crossroads of this world's violence--a tainted water supply, an apathetic<br> municipal government, the Gothic decay of rural domesticity--and <br>another's.</p><br><p>In Brooman's interconnected stories, no one is immune to The Pump's <br>sacrificial games. Lighthouse dwellers, Boy Scouts, queer church camp <br>leaders, love-sick and sick-sick writers, nine-year-old hunters, <br>art-eaters--each must navigate the swamp of their own morality while <br>living on land that is always slowly (and sometimes very quickly) <br>killing them.</p><p>"Brooman has woven an inescapable, ferocious dream of a book. Good luck getting out."<b>--John Elizabeth Stintzi, author of <i>Vanishing Monuments</i></b></p><p>"Brooman's writing is beautiful... Nightmarish and yet somehow fantastical."<strong>--<i>This Magazine</i></strong></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Canadian author Sydney Warner Brooman's debut collection of short fiction instantly cements the non-binary writer as a name to watch. Their gothic tales of fantastical creatures and forged family is magical realism at its best. Drawn from Brooman's upbringing in Grimsby, Ont., the stories feel rooted in both the mythic and the modern, touching on parenthood, loss and transitions."<b>--<i>Chatelaine</i>, Best Buzzy Books</b></p><br><p>"<i>The Pump</i> opens the door to a haunted world that is not easily forgettable. But proceed with caution: this collection will undoubtedly get under your skin."<b>--<i>Quill & Quire</i></b></p><br><p>"In foregrounding the queer aspects of their stories and literalizing the horror that traditionally remains metaphorical, Brooman has created a collection that doesn't tug at the edges of our literary pieties so much as tear them to shreds. By contorting beloved symbols of Canada's national literature and character into bizarre and unfamiliar shapes, Brooman simultaneously locates their stories within a tradition and explodes that tradition for future practitioners."<b>--<i>Toronto Star</i></b></p><br><p>"Brooman's writing is beautiful... Nightmarish and yet somehow fantastical, [<em>The Pump</em>] explores the question of morality in a town that represents the world at its most baldly violent."<strong>--<i>This Magazine</i></strong></p><br><p>"A strange and satisfying debut which, despite its nightmarish magic, manages to capture something terrifyingly real."<strong>--<i>The Miramichi Reader</i></strong></p><br><p><strong><i>"</i></strong>If you left your small hometown because you were "different" - gay or trans in particular - you will see yourself in this smart, authentic and beautifully written book. If you didn't, you will be spellbound nonetheless."<strong>--Andrew Dobson</strong></p><br><p>"Brooman's remarkably self-assured voice remains singular, authentic and wry. <em>The Pump</em> will stay with you, leaving its taste in your mouth: dread and mossy yellow water."<b>--<i>Broken Pencil</i></b></p><br><p>"This is the Southern Ontario that we don't openly acknowledge but that scrapes at the back of our memories. <em>The Pump </em>shows us the surreal violence of living in the 401's sprawl and the staggering beauty of the nature that surrounds it. Don't be fooled by the nightmarish quality of these stories: they are as real as the Mercury Villager that Sydney Warner Brooman drives us in on. This is horror in broad daylight. These are the living ghosts that haunt so many of us who grew up here."<b>--Jia Qing Wilson-Yang, Lambda Award-winning author of <i>Small Beauty</i></b></p><br><p>"<em>The Pump</em> is populated with the kind of tough, awkward, dark, and tender characters you often find trapped in small town, no-place Canada. You'll also find beavers, salt domes, a lighthouse, marshes, more beavers, a Mercury Villager, mosquitoes, and the rest of the beavers. Brooman has woven an inescapable, ferocious dream of a book. Good luck getting out."<b>--John Elizabeth Stintzi, author of <i>Vanishing Monuments</i><br></b></p><br><p>"Bristling with magic, horror, and romance, Sydney Warner Brooman's <em>The Pump</em> transforms small-town Southern Ontario into a place of violence and sacrifice -- or maybe presents it as it truly is. Like nothing I've ever read before, these killer beavers, strange diseases, and infectious waters wouldn't leave my head and drew me back to their world again and again. If only I blurbed delightfully weird books like this for the rest of my life, I'd be happy."<b>--Jess Taylor, Author of <i>Pauls </i>and<i> Just Pervs</i></b></p><br><p>"This is what small-town Ontario looks like when David Attenborough is a distant memory, when social structures are as polluted as the water, when myth has returned--big time--in mounting waves, sweeping our smaller stories out to sea. I don't what is more terrifying: that The Pump exists, or that here, in this wretched, sinking place, you can find something that you desperately love, something that you want to survive. <i>The Pump</i> is an astonishing debut collection from a writer who is just warming up."<b>--Tom Cull, author of <i>Bad Animals</i></b></p><br>
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