A Children's Bible

Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet's sublime new novel-her first since the National Book Award-longlisted Sweet Lamb of Heaven- follows a group of eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their parents at a lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their elders; who pass their days in a hedonistic stupor; the children are driven out into a chaotic landscape after a great storm descends. The story's narrator; Eve; devotes herself to the safety of her beloved little brother as events around them begin to mimic scenes from his cherished picture Bible. Millet; praised as unnervingly talented (San Francisco Chronicle); has produced a heartbreaking story of the legacy of climate change denial. Her parable of the coming generational divide offers a lucid vision of what awaits us on the other side of Revelation.