Atavists: Stories by Lydia Millet
A fast-moving, heartbreaking collection of linked stories that evokes the joy and alienation between generations and classes in the era of mass overwhelm.
From Lydia Milletāāthe American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselvesā (Chicago Tribune)ācomes an inventive new collection of short fiction. Atavists follows a group of families, couples, and loners in their collisions, confessions, and conflicts in a post-pandemic America of artificially lush lawns, beauty salons, tech-bro mansions, assisted-living facilities, big-box stores, gastropubs, college campuses, and medieval role-playing festivals.
The various ā-istsā who people these linked storiesāfrom futurists to insurrectionists to cosmetologistsāinclude a professor whoās morbidly fixated on an old friendās Instagram account; a woman convinced that her bright young son-in-law is watching geriatric porn; a bodybuilder who lives an incelās fantasy life; a couple who surveil the neighbors after finding obscene notes in their mailbox; a pretentious academic accused of plagiarism; and a suburban ex-marathoner dad obsessed with hosting refugees in a tiny house in his backyard.
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$9.80Atavists: Stories by Lydia Millet
A fast-moving, heartbreaking collection of linked stories that evokes the joy and alienation between generations and classes in the era of mass overwhelm.
From Lydia Milletāāthe American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselvesā (Chicago Tribune)ācomes an inventive new collection of short fiction. Atavists follows a group of families, couples, and loners in their collisions, confessions, and conflicts in a post-pandemic America of artificially lush lawns, beauty salons, tech-bro mansions, assisted-living facilities, big-box stores, gastropubs, college campuses, and medieval role-playing festivals.
The various ā-istsā who people these linked storiesāfrom futurists to insurrectionists to cosmetologistsāinclude a professor whoās morbidly fixated on an old friendās Instagram account; a woman convinced that her bright young son-in-law is watching geriatric porn; a bodybuilder who lives an incelās fantasy life; a couple who surveil the neighbors after finding obscene notes in their mailbox; a pretentious academic accused of plagiarism; and a suburban ex-marathoner dad obsessed with hosting refugees in a tiny house in his backyard.
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A fast-moving, heartbreaking collection of linked stories that evokes the joy and alienation between generations and classes in the era of mass overwhelm.
From Lydia Milletāāthe American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselvesā (Chicago Tribune)ācomes an inventive new collection of short fiction. Atavists follows a group of families, couples, and loners in their collisions, confessions, and conflicts in a post-pandemic America of artificially lush lawns, beauty salons, tech-bro mansions, assisted-living facilities, big-box stores, gastropubs, college campuses, and medieval role-playing festivals.
The various ā-istsā who people these linked storiesāfrom futurists to insurrectionists to cosmetologistsāinclude a professor whoās morbidly fixated on an old friendās Instagram account; a woman convinced that her bright young son-in-law is watching geriatric porn; a bodybuilder who lives an incelās fantasy life; a couple who surveil the neighbors after finding obscene notes in their mailbox; a pretentious academic accused of plagiarism; and a suburban ex-marathoner dad obsessed with hosting refugees in a tiny house in his backyard.
