About Lump:
\nA dark\, satiric nove l about a woman whose attempt to escape crises in her health and marriage ends up causing more chaos.
\nCat's career has stalled\, her marriag e has gone flat\, and being a stay-at-home mom for two young kids has beco me a grind. When she finds out\, all within a few days\, that she is pregn ant\, that a lump in her breast is the worst thing it could be\, and that her husband has done something unforgivably repulsive\, she responds by ru nning away from her marriage and her life &mdash\; a life that\, on the ou tside\, looks like middle-class success. Her actions send waves of chaos t hrough the lives of multiple characters\, including a struggling house cle aner\, a rich and charismatic yoga guru\, and even an ailing dog. What fol lows is a dark comedy about marriage\, motherhood\, privilege\, and power.
\nPicked by the Toronto Star as one of the "20 b est books to pile by your hammock".
\nAbout Kathryn Kuit enbrouwer:
\nKa thryn Kuitenbrouwer is the bestselling author of the novels All the Broken Things\, Perfecting and The Nettle Spinner. She is also the author of the story collection\, Way Up. Her work has appeared in Granta\, The Walrus\, Maclean&rsquo \;s\, The Lifted Brow\, Significant Objects\, S toryville and others. Kathryn teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Toronto.
\nAbout Wait Softly Broth er:
\nFrom lost siblings to the horrors of war to tale s of selkie wives\, Wait Softly Brother is filled with questions about memory\, reality and the truths hidden in family lore.
\nAfter twenty years of looping frustrations Kathryn walks out of her marriage an d washes up in her childhood home determined to write her way to a new lif e. There she is put to work by her aging parents sorting generations of me mories and mementos as biblical rains fall steadily and the house is slowl y cut off from the rest of the world. Lured away from the story she is det ermined to write &ndash\; that of her stillborn brother\, Wulf &ndash\; by her mother&rsquo\;s gift of crumbling letters\, Kathryn instead begins to piece together the strange tale of an earlier ancestor\, Russell Boyt\, w ho fought as a substitute soldier in the American Civil War. As the water rises\, and more truths come to the surface\, the two stories begin to min gle in unexpected and beautiful ways. In this elegantly written novel Kuit enbrouwer deftly unravels the stories we are told to believe by society an d shows the reader how to weave new tales of hope and possibility.
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