In a small, unnamed Southern town, a church congregation arrives one Sunday to find a stranger asleep on a pew. The visitor is racially ambiguous, seemingly without gender, and refuses to speak. Taken in by a local family and given the name Pew, this quiet presence becomes an unsettling mirror for the community around them.

As the town prepares for its mysterious Forgiveness Festival, Pew is passed from household to household. Neighbours and churchgoers project their assumptions onto the silent guest, revealing their fears, prejudices, and buried guilt in one-sided confessions. What begins as an act of hospitality slowly curdles into unease, suspicion, and threat.

This dark, allegorical novel explores how quickly generosity can erode when confronted with someone who refuses to fit familiar categories. Through precise, controlled prose, it examines moral certainty, superficial tolerance, and the fragile tools people use to judge who belongs and who does not.

Pew is ideal for readers of contemporary literary fiction who appreciate unsettling, thought-provoking stories about identity, forgiveness, and the dangers of needing every person to have a clear and simple label.

• Literary novel set in a religious Southern town
• Explores identity, morality, and social judgment
• Atmospheric, unsettling, and highly discussable

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