Book
A children's bible : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION MILL (OSH)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2020]
Physical Description
224 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"[This novel] 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 commentary on the environment and human weakness and a vision of what awaits us on the other side of Revelations"--