A silent stranger of indeterminate age, gender and ethnicity holds up a mirror to the oddness and hypocrisy of a small American town Catherine Lacey's puzzle of a novel begins with its main character waking up in an American church during Sunday morning service, unwilling to speak and with no memory of who they are or where they came from. For want of a name this person is called Pew, and the family on whose pew they were found does the Christian thing and takes them in. Pew is of indeterminate ...
A silent stranger of indeterminate age, gender and ethnicity holds up a mirror to the oddness and hypocrisy of a small American town Catherine Lacey's puzzle of a novel begins with its main character waking up in an American church during Sunday morning service, unwilling to speak and with no memory of who they are or where they came from. For want of a name this person is called Pew, and the family on whose pew they were found does the Christian thing and takes them in. Pew is of indeterminate ...
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