Chum Baby by Theresa O’Donnell

Chum Baby is an exploration of loss. An attempt to process a year that cannot be digested. A year of aborted dreams, and death, of manipulation, resilience, and reflection.

Of hunger, and waiting. Of breathing, and the loss of breath.

It weaves the author’s grief after a miscarriage juxtaposed next to the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic. It incorporates filaments from news, history, and pop culture that she clings to as she tries to make sense of a life, a world, and culture in crisis.