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Zusatztext 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 Klappentext A character who has forgotten their name, age, gender and race wakes up on a church bench in a suspicious and god-fearing town, meeting the questions of the locals with an increasingly problematic silence. Colin Barrett and Anne Enright are among the fans of Granta Best of Young American Novelist Lacey. Zusammenfassung An eerie modern tale for fans of Shirley Jackson and Sarah Hall from a young American writer hailed as one of the finest of her generation.
