Lump, Nathan Whitlock

Dundurn Press, 2023

I know Nathan Whitlock, the author of Lump, and he’s a funny guy. And even though Lump tells the story of Cat’s discovering she has breast cancer during an unplanned pregnancy and a collapsing marriage, Lump is really (darkly) funny—but it’s also incredibly clever and sly. There’s another narrative, bubbling along underneath at first, until it rises to the surface in the second half of the book and the reader must confront their expectations about whose story gets to be told. The big C in this book isn’t cancer after all; it’s Class.

—Nicola Winstanley, Hamilton