'I consumed it. It is the electric charge we need' Daisy Johnson, author of Everything Under
One Sunday morning, a mysterious silent figure is found sleeping in a church in an unnamed American town. The congregants call this amnesiac 'Pew' and seek to uncover who they are: their age; their gender, their race, their intentions. Are they an orphan, or something worse? What terrible trouble is Pew running from? And why won't they speak?
Unable to agree on how to treat a person they cannot categorize - whether to adopt or imprison, help or harm them - this small town is quickly undone by Pew's terrifying silence. What remains is a foreboding, provocative, and amorphous fable about the world today: our borders and our boundaries, our fears and our woes.
- ISBN10 1783785179
- ISBN13 9781783785179
- Publish Date 14 May 2020
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 July 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Granta Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English