A Children's Bible - by Lydia Millet (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction<br /> One of the <em>New York Times</em>' Ten Best Books of the Year<br /> Named one of the best novels of the year by <em>Time</em>, <em>Washington Post</em>, NPR, <em>Chicago Tribune</em>, <em>Esquire</em>, BBC, and many others<br /> National Bestseller<br /><br /> A blistering little classic. --Ron Charles, <em>Washington Post</em><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p> <em>A Children's Bible</em> follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, the children decide to run away when a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, embarking on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside. Lydia Millet's prophetic and heartbreaking story of generational divide offers a haunting vision of what awaits us on the far side of Revelation.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><em>A Children's Bible</em> is a...book that's easy to enter fully (and not quite as easy to exit; you might have bad dreams)...Millet's writing is spare but textured. There's genuine feeling here, and humor, too...I loved the imagination of this book, the way it gracefully--as the title implies--tackles the divine.--Rumaan Alam "New Republic"<br><br>[A] prime example of that rare and precious thing: a funny dystopia.--Molly Young "New York"<br><br>[A] story that explores how alarming and baffling it feels to endure the destruction of one's world.--Ron Charles "Washington Post"<br><br>[Lydia] Millet mordantly captures the complacency of older generations in the face of apocalypse, and the righteous anger, endurance, and practicality of the young.-- "The New Yorker"<br><br>A dystopian novel of great power.--Adam Begley "Sunday Times"<br><br>Darkly funny and painfully sharp.--Carolyn Kellogg "Los Angeles Times"<br><br>Lydia Millet has given us a compellingly written, compact, slyly funny novel that warns of the catastrophic events that may overwhelm us. Unless.--Jeffrey Ann Goudie "Boston Globe"<br><br>Millet's take on eco-catastrophe is slyly off-kilter in this novel about kids left to fend for themselves as society unravels.--Elizabeth Kolbert "The Week"<br><br>With brilliant restraint, Millet conceives her own low-key 'bible.'...It's a tale in which whoever or whatever comes after us might recognize, however imperfectly, a certain continuity: an exotic but still decodable shred of evidence from the lost world that is the world we are living in right now.--Jonathan Dee "New York Times Book Review"<br><br>With this slim yet potent book, [Millet] shows it is even possible to coax pleasure and beauty from the uncomfortable work of highlighting unfortunate truths.--Emily Bobrow "Wall Street Journal"<br><br>This superb novel begins as a generational comedy...and turns steadily darker...[I]n this time of great upheaval, [Lydia Millet] implies, our foundational myths take on new meaning and hope.--New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice<br>
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