![]() As the story unfolds in Anna’s no-nonsense voice, it passes through a number of categories, honoring yet defying each. ![]() The best genre designation for “Sweet Lamb of Heaven” might be metaphysical thriller. It’s a rare thing, a semi-experimental narrative, and, thanks to Millet’s precisely elliptical language, it’s a rare pleasure to read. ![]() It’s nothing like them at all and nothing like most literary novels. ![]() Yes, Lydia Millet’s new novel is, as the jacket promises, “the story of Anna, the mother of a young child, fleeing a manipulative and unfaithful husband.”īut no, the haunting “Sweet Lamb of Heaven” is nothing like the marital-discord novels that might arrive bearing somewhat similar descriptions - a twisty thriller such as “Gone Girl,” say, or a fraught romance by Luanne Rice. ![]()
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