A dazzling debut novel about a child whose literal enlightenment sets the stage for an exuberant tragicomedy of marriage, religion, and parenthood.
On an otherwise ordinary fall day on a university campus in Chicago, the toddler son of an ambitious divinity-school professor mysteriously starts to glow. The nimbus, as the strange, soft light comes to be known, offers no clues to its origin and quickly upends the lives of all those who encounter it.
The Nimbus has been called "a caustic send-up of the campus novel" (Publishers Weekly), "intriguing, entertaining, and often searing" (Booklist), and "a hilarious and powerful portrait of faith [that is] both big hearted and boundless in its spiritual examination" (Chicago Review of Books).