Work and sleep. The other issue is pacing — or rather, the relationship between pacing and depth. There is no sense of consistent pacing throughout the novel, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But that swiftness doesn’t always play well with the transitions from one character or group of characters to the next. THE NEW NATURALS | By Gabriel Bump | Algonquin | 295 pp.

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