The Apocalypse of Morgan Turner

Jennifer Quist writes about grief and justice with a lyrical precision that never tips into sentimentality, and the novel's willingness to sit in moral ambiguity — a murderer's Not Criminally Responsible plea, an abattoir, a sister's private fury — gives it genuine literary weight. The unexpected cross-cultural friendships that bloom around Morgan are the book's warmest surprise. Its audience is necessarily adult, its reach is niche, and its resolution is deliberately unresolved, but within those parameters it is beautifully crafted.