Описание: A masterful exhibition in storytelling; a breathless page-turner. Ligon drives his narrative like a formula one racer. Buckle your seat belts and get ready for a thrilling ride. Jonathan Evison, West of Here
Part meditation on modern loves dark and often unexamined underbelly; part cant-put-it-down-even-for-a-dinner-break-thriller, this novel contains one of the most convincingly and complicatedly terrifying fictional characters I have run into. Pam Houston, Contents May Have Shifted
A wildly original love story, a ghost story, a tense and suspenseful story in which the wickedly talented Ligon channels voices of the lost, the longing, and the damned. Jess Walter, We Live in Water
Praise for Safe in Heaven Dead:
A superbly convincing first novel .An expertly motivated debut. Kirkus, starred review
This debut novel instantly seizes and holds the imagination. Publishers Weekly, starred review
Ligon is firmly in control, laying out the elements of the story like the pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle. New York Times Book Review
Nikki has spent her life running from her abusive mother and the violent boyfriend she killed years ago, and now from his brother, Burke, just released from prison. Burke doesnt know yet how his brother died, but hes obsessed with finding Nikki and claiming her and her daughter as his own. Now shes run out of room to run.
Samuel Ligon is the author of Safe in Heaven Dead (HarperCollins, 2003) and Drift and Swerve. His stories have appeared in more than twenty literary journals. He teaches at Eastern Washington Universitys Inland Northwest Center for Writers, and is the editor of Willow Springs.
