Staff Pick
A broken mirror of a novel — some of what you see is recognizable, some is not. Images relate in unsettled ways, a new whole just of out of reach. Mesmerizing. Recommended By Warren B., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet's sublime new novel — her first since the National Book Award long-listed Sweet Lamb of Heaven — follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion.
Contemptuous of their parents, who pass their days in a stupor of
liquor, drugs, and sex, the children feel neglected and suffocated at
the same time. When a destructive storm descends on the summer estate,
the group's ringleaders — including Eve, who narrates the story — decide
to run away, leading the younger ones on a dangerous foray into the
apocalyptic chaos outside.
As the scenes of devastation begin to mimic events in the dog-eared
picture Bible carried around by her beloved little brother, Eve devotes
herself to keeping him safe from harm.
A Children's Bible is a prophetic, heartbreaking story of
generational divide — and a haunting vision of what awaits us on the far
side of Revelation.
Review
"Millet delivers a tense,
prophetic tale about inattention to warning signs with allusions to
biblical tales and embedded themes of environmental and climactic
disasters. A gripping page-turner with an end-times quality." Library Journal
Review
"As bewitching, unflinching,
wry, and profoundly attuned to the state of the planet as ever,
supremely gifted Millet tells a commanding and wrenching tale of
cataclysmic change and what it will take to survive." Booklist
Review
"A bleak and righteously angry tale determined to challenge our rationalizations about climate change." Kirkus Reviews
Synopsis
One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year
One of Time's Ten Best Novels of 2020
A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book of 2020
An indelible novel of teenage alienation and adult complacency in an unraveling world.
Synopsis
One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year
Named one of the best novels of the year by Time, Washington Post, NPR, Esquire, BBC, and many others
An indelible novel of teenage alienation and adult complacency in an unraveling world.
Synopsis
One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year
Named one of the best novels of the year by Time, Washington Post, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Esquire, BBC, and many others
National Bestseller
An indelible novel of teenage alienation and adult complacency in an unraveling world.
About the Author
Lydia Millet has
written twelve works of fiction. She has won awards from PEN Center USA
and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and her books have been
longlisted for the National Book Award, shortlisted for the National
Book Critics Circle Award and
Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and named as
New York Times Notable Books. Her story collection
Love in Infant Monkeys was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She lives outside Tucson, Arizona.