Long-listed for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A Best Book of the Year: Elle, Garden & Gun, Electric Literature, Debutiful A Must-Read: New York, People, NPR, Literary Hub, Jezebel, The Millions, Southern Living, Clarion Ledger, Southern Review of Books, BookBrowse An Indies Introduce and Indie Next Pick A Publishers Weekly Writer to Watch A finalist for the 2025 Los Angeles Times Book Prize's Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction 'A razor-sharp Southern family drama.' --People Reverend Sabre Winfrey, Jr., shepherd of the Seven Seals Missionary Baptist Church, believes in God, his own privilege, and enterprise. He owns the barbershop and the radio station, and generally keeps an iron hand on every aspect of society in Dominion, Mississippi. He and his wife, Priscilla, have five boys; the youngest, Emanuel, is called Wonderboy--no one sings prettier, runs as fast, or turns as many heads. But Wonderboy, his father, and all the structures