Keith Donohues first novel, The Stolen Child, was a national bestseller hailed as captivating USA Today, luminous and thrilling Washington Post, and wonderful...So spare and unsentimental that its impossible not to be moved Newsweek. His new novel, Angels of Destruction, opens on a winters night, when a young girl appears at the home of Mrs. Margaret Quinn, a widow who lives alone. A decade earlier, she had lost her only child, Erica, who fled with her high school sweetheart to join a radical student group known as the Angels of Destruction. Before Margaret answers the knock in the dark hours, she whispers a prayer and then makes her visitor welcome at the door. The girl, who claims to be nine years old and an orphan with no place to go, beguiles Margaret, offering some solace, some compensation, for the womans loss.
