Joyce Carol Oates' New Novel Begins With An Abortion Doctor's Murder
A Book of American Martyrs is told, in part, from the perspective of the murderer, a man who feels he's been called by God.
by NPR Staff
Feb 07, 2017
1 minute
Joyce Carol Oates' latest book opens in 1999 with a killing: A man who considers himself a soldier of Christ shoots a doctor who performs abortions. Over the next 700-plus pages, we see the consequences of that act ripple through the
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