It was about a man running for his life through the snow while carrying a young child.
The images stuck with her and became the basis for her new novel, "Heaven Below." The 371-page, self-published book came out about two months ago.
It tells the story of a Pennsylvania coal miner named Sean O'Connell (the man in the dream looked like Sean Penn, she said, so she used his first name) and his Depression-era journey to life on the water in Shady Side.
Lehmann wrote the bulk of the book in a furious spurt between Halloween and New...
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