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The Supply Chain

$24.99 CAD

By Aaron Schneider
Paperback, 5.5×8.5, 250 pages, ISBN 9780921332947

Aaron Schneider’s new novel The Supply Chain is both masterful in its use of form and style, and a fearless literary foray into the banality of evil.

For decades, companies have used London, Ontario, to test market their products because it is a quintessentially average North American city, and Matt Nowak is as average as the city in which he lives: He watches hockey on Saturday nights and football on Sundays. He has a job that he doesn’t like but that he was lucky to get. He has a house in a suburb that he can only barely afford, and a newborn son who he struggles to love because he was himself raised by cold and distant parents. But one part of Matt’s life is far from average: the company he works for manufactures the armored vehicles that Saudi Arabia is using in the war in Yemen, and that conflict, whose chief victims are children no different than his son, forms the backdrop to everything Matt does.

The Supply Chain weaves a father’s emotional journey, poems, and found texts into an urgent and lyrical exploration of love, complicity, and the far-reaching consequences of average lives.

SKU: CN-8-2-2-1 Categories: Coming Soon, Fiction, Novels
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Author

Aaron Schneider is a Founding Editor at The /tƐmz/ Review, the publisher at the chapbook press 845 Press, and an Assistant Professor in The Department of English and Writing Studies at Western University. His stories have appeared in The Danforth Review, Filling Station, The Puritan, Hamilton Arts and Letters, Pro-Lit, TheChattahoochee Review, BULL, Long Con, The Malahat Review and The Windsor Review. His stories have been nominated for The Journey Prize and The Pushcart Prize. His novella, Grass-Fed (Quattro Books), was published in Fall 2018. His collection of experimental short fiction, What We Think We Know (Gordon Hill Press), was published in Fall 2021. The Supply Chain(Crowsnest Books) is his first novel.

Reviews

“Weaving poetry with history with fiction, Aaron Schneider combines the best of what both genres have to offer. The Supply Chain jumps from monuments to the dead in France to Matt Nowak’s swimming lessons as a boy, showing how a man living in London, Ontario, is never too far from the complex world of military arms production. As Matt grapples with his feelings of disconnect from his newborn son, he also realises ‘the way no one talks about working at UM, not even with their partners, not even in their still houses with no cars going by.’ Through the parallel narrative of this father-son relationship, Schneider comments on what it means to be an onlooker, and how the only way to break through complicity is to push through emotional barriers and emerge as a participant.”
– Manahil Bandukwala, author of MONUMENT

“The most vital imperative for any novel that plays with form is trust: the reader must trust the writer, since the familiar form is rejected as inadequate to the story that needs to be told. Aaron Schneider has won our trust. And he runs with it.
“The Supply Chain coalesces around Matt Nowak, a man of stoic drive and stoppered love—traits that are reflected in the language itself, the structure of narrative. With confidence and surety, Schneider creates a gentle yet ever-persistent sense of menace, interspersing that tension with sentences so sensual, they made me gasp.”
– Marianne Apostolides, author of I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind

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