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Author Millet, Lydia, 1968- author.

Title A children's bible : a novel / Lydia Millet.

Publication Info. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2021.
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 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC MILLET, L    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Adult Fiction  MILLET    Check Shelf
Description 224 pages ; 21 cm
Summary "An indelible and haunting new novel that explores the loss of childhood, intergenerational conflict, and humanity's complacency in the face of its own demise. Lydia Millet's multilayered new novel - her first since the National Book Award Longlist Sweet Lamb of Heaven -- follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the days and nights in drunken stupor. This tension heightens when a great storm arrives and throws the house and its residents into chaos. Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack, A Children's Bible is loosely structured around events and characters that often appear in collections of Bible stories intended for young readers. These narrative touchstones are imbedded in a backdrop of environmental and psychological distress as the children reject the parents for their emotional and moral failures-in part as normal teenagers must, and in part for their generation's passivity and denial in the face of cataclysmic change. In A Children's Bible, Millet offers brilliant commentary on the environment and human weakness and a vision of what awaits us on the other side of Revelations"-- ǂc Provided by publisher.
Subject Family vacations -- Fiction.
Siblings -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Conflict of generations -- Fiction.
Environmental disasters -- Fiction.
Parent and teenager -- Fiction.
Runaway children -- Fiction.
Apathy -- Fiction.
End of the world -- Biblical teaching -- Fiction.
Children's Bibles -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
ISBN 0393867382 (paperback)
9780393867381 (paperback)
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