The Next Queen of Heaven: A Novel [Paperback]

“A delight….[A] funny and warmhearted exploration of the sacred and the profane.”
—Washington Post

“ReadingThe Next Queen of Heavenis like hanging on to the back of an out-of-control carnival ride—terrifying, thrilling, a once-in-a-lifetime adventure.”

—Ann Patchett

New York Timesbestseller Gregory Maguire—who re-imagined the land of Oz and all its fabled inhabitants in his monumental series, The Wicked Years—brings us The Next Queen of Heaven, a wildly farcical and gloriously imaginative tall tale of faith, Catholic dogma, lust, and questionable miracles on the eve of Y2K. The very bizarre and hilarious goings on in the eccentric town of Thebes make for a delightfully mad reading experience—asThe Next Queen of Heavenshows off the acclaimed author ofConfessions of an Ugly StepsisterandMirror Mirrorin a brilliant new heavenly light.

With the new millennium approaching, the eccentric tols~