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On the top floor of a small hospital, an unlikely piano prodigy is based on a coma, attended to by his gruff, helpless dad. Outside the clinic, a motley vigil assembles beneath a unwilling New Mexico winter - strangers searching for answers, a brush with the mystical, or perhaps an escape. For some the son is a novelty, to others a religious beliefs. Just beyond this ragtag circle roams a disconsolate wolf on his nightly rounds, protecting and intimidating, learning too much. And above all of them, a would-be angel rests captive in a holding cell of the afterlife, concluding the work he began on earth, writing the songs that may free him. This unlikely assortment - a small-town mayor, a vengeful guitarist, all the unseen desert lives - unites to weave a persistently hopeful storyline of improbable communion. Upon the discharge of John Brandon's last novel, Citrus Region, The New York Times declared that he "joins the ranks of freelance writers like Denis Johnson, Pleasure Williams, Mary Robison and Tom Drury." Now, with A Million Heavens, Brandon brings his deadpan laughter and hard-won empathy to a new realm of gritty surrealism - a astonishing and exciting convert from among the best young novelists in our time.
