Sleep Toward Heaven, Amanda Eyre Ward
Sleep Toward Heaven, Amanda Eyre Ward
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Sleep Toward Heaven

Author: Amanda Eyre Ward

Narrator: Carol Monda, Susan Bennett

Unabridged: 7 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/24/2011

Categories: Fiction, Short Stories


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 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 grace—a rare literary page-turner where redemption seems perpetually
within arm’s reach.

Reviews

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

Thougth provoking and well written. highly recommended

AudiobooksNow 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.

Goodreads review by Erica on July 25, 2018

A very postmodern book, if only in its undertones. This was a surprisingly quick read which I devoured in a single afternoon. This engrossing plot features a triangle between three women: a prisoner on Death Row, a doctor, and a librarian. At first, the three narratives seem to be randomly thrown to......more

Goodreads review by Book Concierge on August 11, 2013

3.5*** Three very different women are connected by an impending execution at the Huntsville Prison in Texas. Karen – “the Highway Honey” – is on death row for the series of murders she committed in an effort to keep her young lover supplied with heroin. Celia is a lost and emotionally drained librari......more

Goodreads review by Carol on July 09, 2012

The only reason for two stars for this book is that it really gave my book club a lot to discuss; however, it was the topic of the book (not the book itself) that led to all the discussion. I personally felt the book was a little weak. I didn't like the character of Franny at all; difficult to belie......more

Goodreads review by Tracie on January 07, 2009

Beautifully written novel about the lives of three women - Karen, on death row for murdering several men, Celia, a widow whose husband was killed by Karen and Franny, a doctor trying to make Karen's last days more humane. It is a story of forgiveness, what it means to forgive others and how to forgi......more