A review by carmenere
Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet

2.0

Anna decides to have the baby her husband, Ned, does not want. When Lena is born her father has very little to do with her and withdraws from his marriage. Anna on the other hand adores her daughter but these darn voices she begins hearing after her birth are very strange, unrecognizable and make no sense, at all. When Lena is 6 and now living in a run down motel in Maine with her mother, Ned comes back into their lives and manipulates Anna into agreeing to fake family love for the duration of his political campaign. Weird how Ned knows things before they happen, strange how the residents in the run down motel hear voices too. Sounds like a spooky thriller to me, until, this National Book Award longlister, becomes some metaphysical gibberish that does not make any sense and becomes something like a drug induced trip that's really difficult to wrap ones head around.