Pew introduces us to a fairly unique character: nameless, of indeterminate age, gender and race, seemingly mute and amnesiac. They are named Pew by a family who find them sleeping on a church pew (as others have commented: in the manner of naming a pet). Pew's origins and identity are shrouded in mystery, and the Christian Bible Belt community they find themself taken in by is determined to solve that mystery. Alongside this, there is something strange going on in a nearby town, with its own community engaging in protests in the face of a spate of 'disappearances' of young people. In Pew's own town, it's the week of an annual 'festival' which sounds more and more sinister as we learn more about it.

Biography of X is an elaborately constructed fictional biography a female artist, author and musician known only as X. It is written in the persona of C.M. Lucca, X's widow, and supposedly published in 2005 as the conclusion of a decade's research following X's death and initially in response to another, inaccurate, biography.