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Lay Your Armor Down

Lay Your Armor Down

Smith, Michael Farris

Hardcover

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $29.00

ISBN10: 031657337X
ISBN13: 9780316573375
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: May 27 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.85
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
One of NPR's Books of the Year

A prophetic, propulsive tale of one mysterious, messianic child with untold powers who draws three desperate souls into acts of mercy and mayhem. (Scott Blackburn)

An old woman, riddled with dementia, walks off into the woods in the middle of the night. A light in the wood draws her to a campfire with two strange, dangerous men, one young and one old, who are there plotting a crime of as-yet-indeterminate purpose. The two men have a job to do. They are hunting something precious but have only been told: you'll know it when you see it. When they arrive at the place, an abandoned church cellar in the burned-out countryside, they find an answer they never could have predicted. Now, the job feels dubious, one that'll surely bring them to ruin. Yet if they're to go against orders, no step can be undone, and nothing can be taken back.

In spare, imagistic prose, Lay Your Armor Down reduces the epic to its most elemental. It charts the course of several broken people, all outrunning danger's dark fingers, and all brought together for one last chance at redemption.

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