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\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u0026#8212;Jonathan Evison, \u003ci\u003eWest of Here\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/P\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Part meditation on modern love's dark and often unexamined underbelly; part can't-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.\"\u0026#8212;Pam Houston, \u003ci\u003eContents May Have Shifted\u003c/I\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/P\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A wildly original love story, a ghost story, a tense and suspenseful story in which the wickedly talented Ligon channels voices\u0026#8212;of the lost, the longing, and the damned.\"\u0026#8212;Jess Walter, \u003ci\u003eWe Live in Water\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/P\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eSafe in Heaven Dead:\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/P\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A superbly convincing first novel\u0026#8230;.An expertly motivated debut.\"\u0026#8212;\u003ci\u003eKirkus, \u003c/I\u003estarred review\u003c/P\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This debut novel instantly seizes and holds the imagination.\"\u0026#8212;\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, \u003c/I\u003estarred review\u003c/P\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ligon is firmly in control, laying out the elements of the story like the pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle.\"\u0026#8212;\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/P\u003e\u003cp\u003eNikki 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 doesn't know yet how his brother died, but he's obsessed with finding Nikki and claiming her\u0026#8212;and her daughter\u0026#8212;as his own. Now she's run out of room to run. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamuel Ligon \u003c/B\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eSafe in Heaven Dead \u003c/I\u003e(HarperCollins, 2003) and \u003ci\u003eDrift and Swerve\u003c/I\u003e. His stories have appeared in more than twenty literary journals. He teaches at Eastern Washington University's Inland Northwest Center for Writers, and is the editor of \u003ci\u003eWillow Springs\u003c/I\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/div\u003e |
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