Amanda Eyre Wards 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 fiancé 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 gracea rare literary page-turner where redemption seems perpetually within arms reach.
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"LOVED this book. It sucks you in on the very first page & stays interesting all the way through. It's told in 3 voices, which I like. Dark & depressing but in a good way. " — Angie (5 out of 5 stars)
"LOVED this book. It sucks you in on the very first page & stays interesting all the way through. It's told in 3 voices, which I like. Dark & depressing but in a good way. "
" Very powerful read about women on death row, compassion and forgiveness. Certainly a book that makes you think. "
" I thoroughly enjoyed the way the story intertwined the lives of the various women, and how the circumstances that brought them together ultimately set them free. "
" A Powerful...make you stop and think...BOOK! "
" This is a very quick read and you are drawn to the characters. It was hard to sympathize for the women on death row, but a very interesting look at their life. "
" Unique and interesting novel told in alternating chapters by 3 different narrators - a woman on death row, a woman whose husband was murdered, and a sad doctor. "
" A nicely written book with interesting characters who feel very real. "
" I enjoyed the book - a very quick read. I wouldn't call it a MUST read, but it was an interesting perspective on death row and specifically women on death row. "
Amanda Eyre Ward is the critically acclaimed author of five novels, including the bestseller How to Be Lost. She has spent the last year visiting shelters in Texas and California, meeting immigrant children and hearing their stories.
Carol Monda is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and accomplished voice-over artist. She is also an award-winning actor known for her work in Out of Season, After You Left, and The Gentlemen.
Susan Bennett, Earphones Award-winning narrator, has enjoyed an extensive career as a vocal artist. She has worked with major agencies on such accounts as Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, AT&T, Blue Cross, Goodyear, and Club Med. She also dabbles in the music industry as the singer and keyboardist for The Interactive! Band. Along with her guitarist husband, Rick Hinkle, she is the co-owner of Audiocam Music, a full-service recording studio.
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