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A review by claire_fuller_writer
Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet
3.0
I was warned that this is an odd book. I got nearly to the end and kept thinking, well, it's a little odd (a help group for people who have heard voices meets in an out of season motel in Maine), but still interesting (a woman is hiding with her daughter from her megalomaniac husband in the motel), and then last night I read the final few pages and it does get very odd. I haven't quite worked out if it is good odd, or just weird odd. I'm worrying that it's the latter.
(And aside from the ending I didn't feel the hearing voices narrative was strong enough - why do the people still need to meet when they no longer hear the voices? And how does hearing the voices link with the other part of the story?)
(And aside from the ending I didn't feel the hearing voices narrative was strong enough - why do the people still need to meet when they no longer hear the voices? And how does hearing the voices link with the other part of the story?)