Sleep Toward Heaven by Amanda Eyre Ward Paperback Book

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Author: Amanda Eyre Ward

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Harpercollins

Published: Mar 2004

Genre: Fiction - Psychological

Retail Price: $16.99

Pages: 320

Synopsis

Amanda Eyre Ward's debut novel is an intimate portrait of three women whose lives collide during a brutal Texas summer.

In Gatestown, Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Karen Lowens awaits her execution with a host of convicted serial killers on death row. In Manhattan, Dr. Franny Wren, also twenty-nine, tends to a young cancer patient, and resists the urge to run from her fiance and her carefully crafted life. In Austin, Texas, brassy Celia Mills, a once-vibrant librarian, mourns her murdered husband.

Over the course of the summer, fate pushes these eerily recognizable women together, culminating in a revelation of the possibility of faith, the responsibility of friendship, and the value of life. Sleep Toward Heaven is a luminous story of murder and desire, solitude and grace -- a rare literary page-turner where redemption seems perpetually within arm's reach.

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Reviews

BookLender review by Sharon on 2009-05-05 08:39:17

A story about three women with different lives all bound together by violence and disappointment. A page turner with a surprise ending.

BookLender review by Carla on 2007-10-19 16:19:55

Thougth provoking and well written. highly recommended