Lydia Millet has won awards from PEN Center USA and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her books have been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award and longlisted for the National Book Award. She lives outside Tucson, Arizona.
"An American author steps out of the shadows with a dystopian novel
of great power." -- Adam Begley - The Sunday Times
"The pandemic amplifies the resonance of this brilliant end-of-days
escapade... if the conclusion doesn't leave you with goosebumps,
then you should probably check your pulse." -- Stephanie Cross -
The Daily Mail
"New England children caught up in an apocalyptic storm have to
fend for themselves in this powerful novel by a talented American
writer who has often flown under the literary radar." -- 100 best
holiday reads - The Sunday Times
"Here's an idea: As the world falls apart all around us, why not
read a book about the world falling apart in a totally different
way? Not just any book, though, it kind of has to be A
Children's Bible, the brilliant Lydia Millet's latest, in
which the oblivious destructiveness of a certain self-indulgent
generation of adults is rightfully skewered, as a new generation of
hyper-mature teens must figure out how to live without any concrete
kind of guidance." -- Best Books of 2020, So Far - Refinery29
"A perfect novel for now." -- Metro
"A Children's Bible... begins in a crumbling mansion where
a group of bored, surly, privileged teens are spending the summer
sequestered with their ne'er do well parents. Just as it begins to
seem like a summer teen romp, the story takes a dramatic turn in
the shape of a cataclysmic storm. What follows is brilliant-and
feels both inevitable and strangely magical. How those teens tell
the story, which transforms this climate emergency into a brutally
honest, funny and moving indictment of the generations leaving a
broken world for them to inherit, is especially refreshing." --
Diane Cook, The Best Books of 2020 - Evening Standard
"This superb novel begins as a generational comedy - a pack of kids
and their middle-aged parents coexist in a summer share - and turns
steadily darker, as climate collapse and societal breakdown
encroach. But Millet's light touch never falters; in this time of
great upheaval, she implies, our foundational myths take on new
meaning and hope." -- 100 Notable Books of 2020 - The New York
Times Book Review
"... in A Children's Bible, Lydia Millet maps the
consequences of an environmental apocalypse with unnerving,
fable-like simplicity." -- The Best Novels of 2020 - The Telegraph
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