Pew
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New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780374230920, 0374230927
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Ilsley Public Library - Adult FictionFiction LaceyChecked OutFebruary 4, 2022

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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780374230920, 0374230927

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"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.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Lacey, C. (2020). Pew (First edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Lacey, Catherine, 1985-. 2020. Pew. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Lacey, Catherine, 1985-. Pew Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Lacey, Catherine. Pew First edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.

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