“Suture is Nic Brewer’s transgressively taught storytelling. The notes in these pages write desire, connection and art from the body’s vivid capacity for tenderness where the hard stuff tears. A nimble, fearless debut.”
— Canisia Lubrin, Griffin Poetry Prize winning author of The Dyzgraphxst

 Suture is my debut novel, published by Book*hug in September 2021. Set in a universe where creators literally tear their bodies apart for art, this little novel is about mental health and love: it is about the tiny cruelnesses we commit and forgive in ourselves and each other, and it is about the ache of being human.

Seeing this story come to life has been astonishing, and I’m so grateful to every reader who gives us a chance. There is no getting it wrong as you read Suture, because there is no getting it right: there is only what you feel as you read, and what you do with that. I wrote it for your heart, your tender heart and I am reaching for your soft underbelly with the sharp edges of this story. I wrote it for you.

“Suture is a daring, visceral debut thatexamines the painful side of the creative process. Blending body horror with meditations on love, art, and forgiveness, this novel will startle and captivate you.”
— Catriona Wright, author of Difficult People
“Nic Brewer’s Suture is a fleshy, flashy, not-for-the-faint-of-heart tale that poetically reimagines artmaking into the gory-yet-tender body horror that it has—perhaps—always figuratively been. Hold on to your guts.”
— John Elizabeth Stintzi, author of Vanishing Monuments and My Volcano
“I read this book with wonder – Brewer’s confident prose swept me along. Hers is sure, sharp writing that doesn’t flinch from tenderness, and Suture is fearless in getting it true when rightness doesn’t come into it. I felt this book in my body.”
— Gillian Wigmore, author of Glory