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Lullaby

Chuck Palahniuk

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#4354 of 8,085 books · #353 in Horror

Shortlisted for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel (2002).

Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. After responding to several calls with paramedics, he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died. It's a 'culling song' - an ancient African spell for euthanizing sick or old people. Researching it, he meets a woman who killed her own child with it accidentally. He himself accidentally killed his own wife and child with the same poem twenty years earlier. Together, the man and the woman must find and destroy all copies of this book, and try not to kill every rude sonofabitch that gets in their way. Lullaby is a comedy/drama/tragedy. In that order.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781446483992
Topics
Grief and lossPower of language and cursesDark comedy

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