Sleep Toward Heaven

Amanda Eyre Ward’s debut novel is an intimate portrait of three women whose lives collide during a brutalTexas summer.In Gatestown, Texas, twenty-nine-year-old Karen Lowens awaits her execution with a host of convicted serialkillers on death row. In Manhattan, Dr. Franny Wren, also twenty-nine, tends to a young cancer patient, and resiststhe urge to run from her fiancé and her carefully crafted life. In Austin, Texas, brassy Celia Mills, a once-vibrantlibrarian, mourns her murdered husband.Over the course of the summer, fate pushes these eerily recognizable women together, culminating in a revelationof the possibility of faith, the responsibility of friendship, and the value of life. Sleep Toward Heaven is a luminousstory of murder and desire, solitude and grace—a rare literary page-turner where redemption seems perpetuallywithin arm’s reach.