Millet, Lydia,  1968- <br/><br/>
A children's bible :  a novel / 
Lydia Millet. 
 - First edition. 
 - 224 pages ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/>This book was bought with money from the Canton Public Library Book Purchase Enrichment Fund established in 2017 with the Canton Community Foundation by Appreciative Readers, june 2020. 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781324005032 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2019050471 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Parent and teenager--Fiction.<br/>Family vacations--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3563 .I42175  / C48 2020