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Sweet Lamb of Heaven

Sweet Lamb of Heaven
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Available in: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Audiobook
  • Published: May 2, 2017
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… an extraordinary metaphysical thriller from one of America’s most inventive novelists.
–Slate

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A chilling first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who’s just launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. But the longer they stay, the less the guests in the dingy motel look like typical tourists—and the less Ned resembles a typical candidate. As his pursuit of Anna and their child moves from threatening to criminal, Ned begins to alter his wife’s world in ways she never could have imagined.


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