Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk

Lullaby by Chuck PalahniukCarl 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 euthanising sick or old people. Researching it, he meets a woman who killed her own child with it accidentally. He himself accidentally

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Through Harden's harrowing narrative of Shin's life and remarkable escape

With his characteristic honesty and forthrightness

surrounded by the people she hates the most

In the shadow of the Himalayas Nepalese shamans

Her research overturns the widely held belief that emotions are housed in different parts of the brain and are universally expressed and recognized

who sees a way to gain the acceptance and wealth he craves

and ever pertinent

No exceptions

who is sworn to marry someone else

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