TY  - BOOK
AU  - Millet,Lydia
TI  - A children's bible: a novel 
SN  - 9781324005032
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - W. W. Norton & Company
KW  - Family vacations
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Brothers and sisters
KW  - Survival
KW  - Conflict of generations
KW  - Environmental disasters
KW  - Parent and teenager
KW  - Runaway children
KW  - Apathy
KW  - End of the world
KW  - Biblical teaching
KW  - Children's Bibles
N2  - "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"--
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