Joyce Carol Oates 
Little Bird of Heaven 
A Novel

Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates is a riveting story of love violently lost and found in late 20th century America.In this novel, Oates returns to the Buffalo, New York, region to brilliantly explore the dangerous intersections of romance and eroticism, guilt and obsession, desire and murder. Little Bird of Heaven, a soaringwork by the New York Times bestselling author and a nominee for the 2009 Man Booker Prizeone of the worlds most prestigious literary awardsis as powerful and unforgettable as Joyce Carol Oatess previous acclaimed novels The Gravediggers Daughter and We Were the Mulvaneys.