![]() Anna and this sociopathic man, Ned, used to live together in Alaska, but they’ve been estranged for six years. ![]() Now she’s hiding out in a coastal Maine motel with her effulgent little daughter in tow and an ice-hearted husband in pursuit. ![]() The book initially resembles a diary whose canny author, Anna, tells us that she used to hear voices. In Sweet Lamb of Heaven, it shadows a young mother as she faces another threat, similarly malign, but more personal and immediate - the threat of a man against a woman. The threat of extinction in particular hangs above much of Millet’s work. “They always twist and turn, tonally.”), a love of the natural world and disgust with what humans have done to it. The new novel has much in common with her other recent books: piercingly elegant sentences, a wide range of styles (“My books can’t be one thing all the way along,” Millet has said. She deserves another award for this heroic output. Sweet Lamb of Heaven is Millet’s 14th novel, her sixth in the last five years. ![]() Entries include Oh Pure and Radiant Heart Love in Infant Monkeys George Bush, Dark Prince of Love How the Dead Dream Ghost Lights Magnificence and Mermaids in Paradise. Lydia Millet deserves some sort of award for her books titles alone. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work. ![]()
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