A Children's Bible - Hardcover

by Lydia Millet (Author)

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.

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Praise for Lydia Millet:

"A writer without limits."
- Karen Russell, author of Orange World and Swamplandia!

"Lydia Millet is a stone-cold genius."
- Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation and Weather

"One of the funniest writers of American fiction."
- Christian Lorentzen, New York

"Unnervingly talented."
- Mary Pols, San Francisco Chronicle

"A visionary sensibility."
- Los Angeles Times

"[Her] writing is always flawlessly beautiful, reaching for an experience that precedes language itself."
- Laura Miller, Salon