![]() 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.Ī double-edged and satisfying story with a strong female protagonist, a thrilling plot, and a creeping sense of the apocalyptic, Sweet Lamb of Heaven builds to a shattering ending with profound implications for its characters-and for all of us. Only one writer, Lydia Millet, has been honored by the National Book Awards before Millet’s novel Sweet Lamb of Heavenwas Longlisted for Fiction in 2016. At times, I was very frustrated with Anna, the wife fleeing her pathologically uncaring and cheating spouse, because she was so myopic about the true danger to her. 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. But Millets book is not so much thriller as metaphysical reflection on the nature of the world wrapped in an ostensibly common story of a marital relationship gone bad and an abusive spouse. 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. Likewise greeted with rapturous praise, Sweet Lamb of Heaven is a first-person account of a young mother, Anna, fleeing her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who's just launched his first campaign for political office. ![]() ![]() Lydia Millet's previous work has been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. ![]() Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction: Blending domestic thriller and psychological horror, this compelling page-turner follows a mother fleeing her estranged husband. ![]()
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