{"product_id":"the-pump-9781988784793","title":"The Pump","description":"\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 \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 \u003cp\u003eIn Brooman'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Invisible Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781988784793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176","brand":"Sydney Warner Brooman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40721535303861,"sku":"9781988784793","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0a7f56ff-3c46-41a0-99b1-44fd047e96e7.jpg?v=1628607008","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-pump-9781988784793","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}