- Published: 14/05/2020
- ISBN: 9781783785179
- Granta Books
- 224 pages
Pew
Catherine Lacey
Fleeing a past they can no longer remember, Pew wakes on a church bench, surrounded by curious strangers.
Pew doesn’t have a name, they’ve forgotten it. Pew doesn’t know if they’re a girl or a boy, a child or an almost-adult. Is Pew an orphan, or something worse? And what terrible trouble are they running from?
Pew won’t speak, but the men and women of this small, god-fearing town are full of questions. As the days pass, their insistent clamour will build from a murmur to a roar, as both the innocent and the guilty come undone in the face of Pew’s silence.
Special Offer: £12.99 £9.99
A stranger comes to town, and takes us with them into their estrangement among the denizens of a conservative religious community. The people of this community are stifling, and generous, cruel, earnest, needy, overconfident, fragile and repressive, which is to say that they are brilliantly rendered by their wise maker, Catherine Lacey
Rachel Kushner, author of, The Mars Room
I consumed it. It is the electric charge we need
Daisy Johnson, author of, Everything Under
The mercurial and electric Catherine Lacey has now conjured up an of-the-moment fable of trauma and projection - one part Kaspar Hauser, one part James Purdy, and one part Rachel Cusk. The pages shimmer with implication
Jonathan Lethem, author of, Motherless Brooklyn
From the Same Author
Catherine Lacey on Granta.com
Fiction | Granta Books
Pew
Catherine Lacey
‘The church has no thoughts. The church is brick and glass. If they ever slept there, they would see that.’