"Lobster fishing, on P.E.I., anyway, is this incredible industry. It's a ton of work. Some Hellish won the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers's Trust Fiction Prize. The $60,000 award recognizes the best novel or short story collection published in Canada.įishing is a metaphor for life in Nicholas Herring's novel Some Hellish Through a myriad of absurd and confronting experiences, including his wife and children leaving him, Tibetan monks rescuing him after a near-death experience, Herring is forced to reckon with himself, his fear and what it means to be alive. That is, until one December day when he decides to cut a hole in the living room floor and alter the course of his life as he knows it. Nicholas Herring's novel Some Hellish is about a lobster fisher named Herring who is facing the existential dread of what he feels is a boring, mundane life.
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