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.
Author: Lydia Millet
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 05/12/2020
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.8lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.80w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781324005032
Language: English
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