A Children’s Bible: A Novel Paperback – February 16, 2021 by Lydia Millet

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Author: Millet Lydia

Brand: W. W. Norton & Company

Edition: Reprint

Package Dimensions: 16x208x191

Number Of Pages: 240

Release Date: 16-02-2021

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Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction 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 “A blistering little classic.” ―Ron Charles, Washington Post
A Children’s Bible 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.
Review
“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.”
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New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice

“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.”
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Emily Bobrow, Wall Street Journal

“[A] story that explores how alarming and baffling it feels to endure the destruction of one’s world.”
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Ron Charles, Washington Post

“[A] prime example of that rare and precious thing: a funny dystopia.”
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Molly Young, New York

“A dystopian novel of great power.”
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Adam Begley, Sunday Times

“Darkly funny and painfully sharp.”
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Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times

“[Lydia] Millet mordantly captures the complacency of older generations in the face of apocalypse, and the righteous anger, endurance, and practicality of the young.”
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The New Yorker

“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.”
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Jonathan Dee, New York Times Book Review

“Lydia Millet has given us a compellingly written, compact, slyly funny novel that warns of the catastrophic events that may overwhelm us. Unless.”
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Jeffrey Ann Goudie, Boston Globe

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A Children’s Bible 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.”
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Rumaan Alam, New Republic

“Millet’s take on eco-catastrophe is slyly off-kilter in this novel about kids left to fend for themselves as society unravels.”
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Elizabeth Kolbert, The Week
About the Author
Lydia Millet has won awards from PEN Center USA and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and her books have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the
Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She lives outside Tucson, Arizona.