Pew is found on a sleeping on a church pew in an unnamed American town. They have no specific gender or race, and very rarely speak.

As Granta’s brief mentions, this book is at the cutting edge of contemporary literature. The prose is clean, modern and bold. Most of all, though – or, at least, this is what stood out to me the most – it’s a novel which is unerringly eerie. To lend a line or two from the cover copy…: