Lydia Millet, Author . Holt $20 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6846-7
A tinted review in adult Forecasts indicates a book that's of exceptional importance to our readers but that hasn't received a starred or boxed review.MY HAPPY LIFELydia Millet. Holt, $20 (149p) ISBN 0-8050-6846-5Occasionally a book comes...
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Lydia Millet, Author . Soft Skull $25 (489p) ISBN 978-1-932360-85-1
What if Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard, the primary physicists from the Manhattan Project, returned to contemporary America to survey their atomic legacy? That question forms the heart of Millet's excellent fourth novel, in...
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Lydia Millet, Author . Counterpoint $24 (244p) ISBN 978-1-59376-184-4
Millet proves no less lyrical, haunting or deliciously absurd in her brilliant sixth novel than in her fifth, the acclaimed Oh Pure & Radiant Heart
. As a boy, T. keeps his distance from others, including his loving but vacant parents,...
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Lydia Millet, Author . Counterpoint/Soft Skull $13.95 (177p) ISBN 978-1-59376-252-0
It makes a bizarre kind of sense to pair animals with celebrities, as the PEN-USA Award–winning Millet does in her new collection, since both tend to provoke our sympathy while remaining fundamentally alien. This disconnect proves a...
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Lydia Millet, Author Touchstone Books $12.95 (164p) ISBN 978-0-684-86274-3
The 41st president's gaffes are milked for all they're worth in Millet's (Omnivores) coy political satire. In four sections, one per presidential year, Rosemary--the brainy, obese ex-con whose memoirs these purport to be--models her life after the...
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Lydia Millet, Author Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56512-089-1
Millet's feisty but sometimes awkward debut tells of a young girl's coming-of-age in an extremely dystopian version of modern America. The Candide-like protagonist, Estee Kraft, spends her childhood as a prisoner of a bedridden mother and...
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Lydia Millet. Norton, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-08171-8
By his own account, Hal has “become a typical domestic drone, a man wrapped up in the details of his own life and only his own.” His IRS job seems redundant, underscoring that Hal is a drab, routine, sad man. His adult daughter is in a wheelchair,...
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Lydia Millet. Norton, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-08170-1
Suddenly alone after the death of her husband, Susan Lindley is unmoored in Millet’s elegant meditation on death and what it means to be alone, even when you’re not, in this companion piece to How the Dead Dream and Ghost Lights. When Susan’s boss,...
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Lydia Millet. Norton, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-24562-2
Absurdity and paranoia permeate the latest novel from Millet (Pulitzer Prize finalist for Love in Infant Monkeys). The book follows a newlywed couple on their honeymoon at a resort in the Caribbean. Deb and Chip embody the modern American dream:...
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Lydia Millet. Norton, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-28554-3
Pulitzer Prize–finalist Millet’s latest novel (following Mermaids in Paradise) begins with Anna and her six-year-old daughter, Lena, leaving Alaska while on the run from her husband, Ned. The bad news is that sociopathic Ned doesn’t give up so...
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Lydia Millet, read by Cassandra Campbell. Dreamscape Media, , unabridged, 7 CDs, 8.5 hrs., $59.99 ISBN 978-1-63379-190-9
Veteran narrator Campbell takes on lighter fare in narrating Millet’s latest, a novel rife with wryly comic situations and a cast of unusual characters—who meet at a Caribbean resort and discover to their shock that there is a colony of mermaids (wh
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Lydia Millet. Norton, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-63548-5
Millet’s irresistible latest (following Sweet Lamb of Heaven) is a series of loosely connected stories centering on Los Angeles real estate, eccentric musicians, and a dysfunctional family on the verge of implosion. In “To Think/I Killed a Cat,”...
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Lydia Millet. Norton, $25.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-324-00503-2
Millet follows up Sweet Lamb of Heaven with a lean, ironic allegory of climate change and biblical comeuppance. A group of friends, successful “artsy and educated types,” plan an “offensively long reunion” at a summer house “built by robber barons...
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Lydia Millet. Norton, $26.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-324-02146-9
Millet returns with a brilliant story of survival, one subtler and more effective than the NBA-shortlisted A Children’s Bible (2020). Gil, the decent and well-meaning 40-something protagonist, leaves Manhattan for Phoenix, Ariz., where he moves into
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Lydia Millet. Norton, $27.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-324-07365-9
Novelist Millet (Dinosaurs), also a creative director at the Center for Biological Diversity, ruminates in this profoundly affecting meditation on what it means to live through climate change. The narrative flows as if by instinct, moving from...
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