{"product_id":"9781988784793-the-pump","title":"The Pump","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\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\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Gothic collection of stories featuring carnivorous beavers, art-eaters, and family intrigue, for fans of Alice Munro and Shirley Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\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\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40945924112481,"sku":"9781988784793","price":9.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_24107124.jpg?v=1716403590","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781988784793-the-pump","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}