Saints Rest by Luke Francis Beirne

Saints Rest by Luke Francis Beirne

The term “Grit Lit” had its twentieth birthday three years ago. And like “Neo Noir,” a literary cousin a few decades older, the term is a bit of a catch-all applied to moodily stylized representations where shadow eclipses light and violence is a given. Ethics? Situational. Justice? Notional. Conversation? Clipped, accusatory, threatening, disgruntled, transactional, and half-truthful at best. The streets are mean and buildings ramshackle; needl…