Our Monster, Who art in Heaven

It’s 1997, and William Sturm is a freshman stuck at an isolated fundamentalist Christian college in a swamp near Tampa Bay, Florida. On his first day back from break, a student is found impaled on the chapel steeple. A week later, Will later tries to save a fellow student from choking on something no one else can see; only the result isn’t gratitude but public disgrace, branding him a pervert and a pariah.

Meanwhile, he’s struggling with the revelation that his eight-year-old sister has canc...