by Wally Lamb
Wally Lamb's two previous novels, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, struck a chord with readers. One critic called Wally Lamb a "modern-day Dostoyevsky," whose characters struggle with a "mocking, sadistic God" in whom they don't believe but to whom they turn, nevertheless, in times of trouble (New York Times). Lamb's new novel is an extraordinary tour de force, at once a meditation on the human condition and an unflinching yet compassionate evocation of character.