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When high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, she survives. But when Caelum and Maureen flee to an illusion of safety on the Quirk family's Connecticut farm, they discover that the effects of chaos are not easily put right. While Maureen fights to regain her sanity, Caelum discovers five generations' worth of diaries, letters, and newspaper clippings in his family's house. As unimaginable secrets emerge, Caelum grapples with the past and struggles to fashion a future from the ashes of tragedy. His quest for meaning is at once mythic and contemporary, personal and quintessentially American.

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Lamb, a maestro of orchestrating emotion . . . knows how to make his fans' hearts sing. -- Corrie Pikul, Elle

A page-turner. . . . Lamb remains a storyteller at the top of his game. --Craig Wilson, USA Today Lamb does an extraordinary job narrating some of the most terrifying tragedies of the past 10 years....an epic journey. Grade: A. --Rocky Mountain News Lamb has crafted another affecting, engrossing tome about complicated, interesting characters. --Cherie Parker, Minneapolis Star Tribune Lamb, a maestro of orchestrating emotion . . . knows how to make his fans' hearts sing. --Corrie Pikul, Elle Too compelling to put down . . . a richly textured story . . . moving, funny, and completely unpredictable. --Gail Pennington, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Wally Lamb is a remarkable talent. --Columbus Dispatch When you put Lamb's newest novel down, it will be reluctantly. It's that good. --Knoxville News-Sentinel A soaring novel as amazingly graceful as the classic hymn that provides the title --Miami Herald Every character is rendered with vivid, utterly convincing depth. . . . A heck of a page-turner. --Dallas Morning News Lamb . . . has delivered a tour de force, his best yet. A --Entertainment Weekly

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Wally Lamb is the beloved author of She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, and the editor of Couldn’t Keep It To Myself, a previous volume of writing from the writing workshop he runs at the York Correctional Institution.

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