A review by kairhone
Pew by Catherine Lacey

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.75

Pew is a silent mirror to the complex and morally ambiguous people of this small southern town. People here can't help but enforce their narrow ideas of gender and race on this unnamed protagonist. Neither can they help but use the mute Pew as a sounding board for their shameful experiences, guilty thoughts, and sad memories. The forgiveness festival is a bizarre and creepy, yet ultimately a brief chapter at the very end of the novel that explores humans' basest instinct of violence and desire and need to be absolved.