One of The New Yorker's "Best Books We've Read in 2025 So Far."
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 is an exuberant tragicomedy about marriage, religion, academia, and parenthood. Publishers Weekly calls it "a caustic send-up of the campus novel." Booklist finds it "intriguing, entertaining, and often searing." And the Chicago Review of Books says it's a "a hilarious and powerful portrait of faith [that is] both big hearted and boundless in its spiritual examination."