Sludge Utopia follows a twenty-five-year-old, Catherine, whose intense engagement with literature becomes the lens for understanding her life. The novel traces attempts to find meaning through desire, family ties and recurrent depression.

Through relationships that range from an intellectual liaison to more serious affairs and episodes that carry her between Toronto, France and Portugal, Catherine confronts how longing, ethics and internalized misogyny shape her view of adulthood. The voice is candid, analytic and sharply observant.

Readers of introspective contemporary fiction and literary autofiction will find psychological depth, ethical questioning and a restless inquiry into identity and the pressures of modern life.

• Autofictional, literary voice
• Themes: desire, depression, identity, ethics
• Settings include Toronto, France and Portugal
• Paperback, 220 pages

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