"This chilling and original novel follows a young woman's escape from her estranged husband. Daughter in tow, Anna flees from Alaska to Maine, where the pair lays low in a run-down motel on the coast. But the longer they stay, the less the motel's guests seem like ordinary toutrists--and the less Anna's husband seems like an ordinary man. Sweet Lamb of Heaven explores language and power, marriage and motherhood"--Page 4 of cover.