Book description
WINNER of the 2021 NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award. Finalist for the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize. Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. One of Publishers Weekly's Best Fiction Books of 2020. One of Amazon's…
Why read it?
1 author picked Pew as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book strikes that perfect tone that hits oddness and singularity on the head, with a bit of spirituality thrown in. When a genderless, racially ambiguous person is found on a church pew (and thus called “Pew” by the parishioners), what is one to think?
Lacey expertly leads us through others’ reactions to the stranger: at first, confiding and confessing their fears, then becoming more menacing. It’s the perfect juxtaposition of what so many of us tend to do when experiencing someone who is different: projecting ourselves and our dreams and fears onto her or him or them.
From Mark's list on fascination with the strange and being different.
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