Description: "In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds a figure asleep on a pew. The person is genderless, racially ambiguous, and refuses to speak. One family takes the strange visitor in and 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 and seemingly well-meaning townspeople see conflicting identities in Pew, and many confess their fears and secrets to them in one-sided conversations. Pew listens and 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 and suspicion. Yet by the time Pew's story reaches a shattering and 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."--Publisher description.
Review Quotes: «La primera oración, por sí sola, es una obra maestra». --Rodrigo Fresán
«Entre una obra del gótico sureño en la onda de Flannery O'Connor, una fábula político-religiosa que recuerda a Margaret Atwood, un cuento de terror en una población pequeña al estilo de Shirley Jackson, o una perversa actualización de la gran obra de Mark Twain, El forastero misterioso». --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal «Una joven prodigio que escribe con dinamita». --Vulture «Inquietante, mundana y divertida, [...] como si unos personajes de Beckett estuvieran deambulando por un paisaje reconocible e incluso realista [...]. Un libro valiente». --James Wood, The New Yorker «Quien valore la literatura que desafía los estándares no puede perderse esta novela». --Ryan Smernoff, Los Angeles Review of Books «Peligrosamente incómoda y escrita de manera sublime [...]. Una obra maestra». --Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman «Su novela más profunda». --Beejay Silcox, The Times Literary Supplement «Potentísima [...]. Rica y enigmática». --Anthony Cummins, The Observer