The Notable Nimbus

It was a real surprise and a true delight to find The Nimbus on The Washington Post's year-end list of "50 Notable Works of Fiction from 2025":

One quiet afternoon on a university campus, a 2-year-old boy starts to glow. Thus begins Baird's debut novel, which is at once a realist (and satirical) campus novel and speculative science fiction, depending on how one looks at it. The novel alternates between the eyes of different characters trying to make sense of the boy's glow, including his father, a divinity professor.