The Supply Chain

“Weaving poetry with history with fiction, Aaron Schneider combines the best of what both genres have to offer. The Supply Chain jumps from monuments to the dead in France to Matt Nowak’s swimming lessons as a boy, showing how a man living in London, Ontario, is never too far from the complex world of military arms production. As Matt grapples with his feelings of disconnect from his newborn son, he also realises ‘the way no one talks about working at UM, not even with their partners, not even in their still houses with no cars going by.’ Through the parallel narrative of this father-son relationship, Schneider comments on what it means to be an onlooker, and how the only way to break through complicity is to push through emotional barriers and emerge as a participant.”
– Manahil Bandukwala, author of MONUMENT

“The most vital imperative for any novel that plays with form is trust: the reader must trust the writer, since the familiar form is rejected as inadequate to the story that needs to be told. Aaron Schneider has won our trust. And he runs with it.
“The Supply Chain coalesces around Matt Nowak, a man of stoic drive and stoppered love—traits that are reflected in the language itself, the structure of narrative. With confidence and surety, Schneider creates a gentle yet ever-persistent sense of menace, interspersing that tension with sentences so sensual, they made me gasp.”
– Marianne Apostolides, author of I Can’t Get You Out of My Mind