A Million Heavens

By John Brandon

Book Overview

On the top floor of a small desert hospital, an unlikely piano prodigy lies in a coma, attended to by his gruff, helpless father. Outside the clinic, a motley vigil assembles beneath a reluctant New Mexico winter?all watched by a disconsolate wolf on his nightly rounds. To some the boy is a novelty, to others a religion. And above them, a would-be angel sits captive in a holding cell of the afterlife, finishing the work he began on Earth, writing the songs that could free him.

A Million Heavens brings John Brandon's deadpan humor and hard-won empathy to a new realm of gritty surrealism?a surprising and exciting turn from one of the best young novelists of our time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1938073347
• ISBN13: 9781938073342
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: McSweeney's
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.4"