Pew
Catherine LaceyA figure with no identity appears in a small, religious town, throwing its inhabitants into a frenzy In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service & finds a figure asleep on a pew. The person is genderless, racially ambiguous, & refuses to speak. One family takes the strange visitor in & nicknames them Pew.
As the town spends the week preparing for a mysterious Forgiveness Festival, Pew is shuttled from one household to the next. The earnest & seemingly well-meaning townspeople see conflicting identities in Pew, & many confess their fears & secrets to them in one-sided conversations. Pew listens & observes while experiencing brief flashes of past lives or clues about their origins.
As days pass, the void around Pew’s presence begins to unnerve the community, whose generosity erodes into menace & suspicion. Yet by the time Pew’s story reaches a shattering & unsettling climax at the Forgiveness Festival, the secret of their true nature—as a devil or an angel or something else entirely—is dwarfed by even larger truths.
Pew, Catherine Lacey’s third novel, is a foreboding, provocative, & amorphous fable about the world today: its contradictions, its flimsy morality, & the limits of judging others based on their appearance. With precision & restraint, one of our most beloved & boundary-pushing writers holds up a mirror to her characters’ true selves, revealing something about forgiveness, perception, & the faulty tools society uses to categorize human complexity.
Catherine Lacey is the author of the novels Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers, & Pew, & of the short-story collection Certain American States...
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