Lump
Published on 18. July 2023
320 pages
978-1-4597-5130-9 (ISBN)
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- Dark, satirical, and told from multiple perspectives, Lump is an incisive dark comedy examining the inner workings of domestic life, reminiscent of Chritos Tsiolkas's The Slap and Zadie Smith's On Beauty
- Touches on issues of breast cancer, family drama, infidelity, sexual assault, income disparity, toxic masculinity, class differences, the hypocrisy and casual racism of upper-middle-class liberals, and the vulnerability of immigrant service workers
- Author has two previous novels, A Week of This, which Heather O'Neill called "a portrait of people in a small town so intimate that it feels like you are under the covers with them" and Congratulations on Everything
- Author is the coordinator for Humber College's Creative Book Publishing program
- Author residence: Hamilton, Ontario
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Nathan Whitlock is the author of the novels A Week of This and Congratulations On Everything. His work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, Best Canadian Essays, and elsewhere. He lives with his family in Hamilton, Ontario.
