Comprised of linked short stories that have been widely published in Canada, the novel’s individual sections have won multiple Canadian awards and received praise from John Irving, Sheila Heti, Madeline Thien, and others. Reviewers have likened Pugsley’s fiction to that of J.D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey and Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird. The author also identifies Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women and Great Expectations as influences. Afilmmaker, Pugsley’s cinematic eye translates to image-driven prose and crisp dialogue.