The Saint of Bright Doors

Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel! A 2023 New York Times Notable Book ΓÇ£The best book I’ve read all year. Protean,singularoriginal.ΓÇ¥ ΓÇöAmal El-Mohtar for the New York Times The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults against the mundane struggles of modern liferesulting in a novel that is revelatory and resonant. Fetter was raised to killhoned as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to talk about in therapy. He walked among invisible powers: devils and anti-gods that mock the mortal form. He learned a lethal catechismlost his shadowand gained a habit for secrecy. After a blood-soaked childhoodFetter escaped his rural hometown for the big cityand fell into a broader world where divine destinies are a dime a dozen. Everything in Luriat is more than it seems. Group therapy is recruitment for a revolutionary cadre. Junk email hints at the arrival of a god. Every door is laden with potentialand once closed may never open again. The city is scattered with Bright Doorslooming portals through which a cold wind blows. In this unknowable metropolisFetter will discover what kind of man he isand his discovery will rewrite the world.