Lullaby — Chuck Palahniuk

Carl 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 euthanizing sick or old people Researching it he meets a woman who killed her own child with it accidentally He himself accidentally killed his own wife and child with the same poem twenty years earlier Together the man and the woman must find and destroy all copies of this book and try not to kill every rude sonofabitch that gets in their way Lullaby is a comedy drama tragedy In that order It may also be Chuck Palahniuk s best book yet