Pilgrim Bell

*AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021***Selected as one of TIME''s 100 Must-Read Books of 2021**''Profound and singular, smart and sad and funny. . . We need Pilgrim Bell.'' TOMMY ORANGEWith formal v ...

*AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021***Selected as one of TIME''s 100 Must-Read Books of 2021**''Profound and singular, smart and sad and funny. . . We need Pilgrim Bell.'' TOMMY ORANGEWith formal virtuosity and ruthless precision, Kaveh Akbar''s second collection takes its readers on a spiritual journey of disavowal, fiercely attendant to the presence of divinity where artifacts of self and belonging have been shed. How does one recover from addiction without destroying the self-as-addict? And if living justly in a nation that would see them erased is, too, a kind of self-destruction, what does