Author(s): Lydia Millet

Novel | Humour & Satire | USA

Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction.

Her exquisite new novel is the story of a man named Gil who walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new neighbors move into the glass-walled house next door and his life begins to mesh with theirs. In this warmly textured, drily funny, and philosophical account of Gil's unexpected devotion to the family, Millet explores the uncanny territory where the self ends and community begins-what one person can do in a world beset by emergencies.

Dinosaurs is both sharp-edged and tender, an emotionally moving, intellectually resonant novel that asks: In the shadow of existential threat, where does hope live?

Review: "Tender but never sentimental, wearing its intelligence in a low-slung style, Dinosaurs is a garden of earthly delights." -- Laura Mechling - Vogue
"Deceptively simple and quietly lovely, Dinosaurs is a compassionate character study of a loner who discovers community. " -- Adrienne Westenfeld - Esquire
"Effortlessly readable... there is something new and unusual about Dinosaurs." -- Sam Sacks - The Wall Street Journal
"Quietly powerful" -- Adam Begley - The Spectator
"This gentle, redemptive novel follows a damaged, trusting man as he heals through human connection and requited love... it leaves a warm afterglow and an optimism that lingers." -- Sally Morris - Daily Mail
"Dinosaurs' solidifies a new phase of Millet's career. . . . The spaciousness of the style makes the sense of loss richer and the questions posed - what constitutes moral action, how best can we help one another - at once simpler and more profound." -- Christine Smallwood - The New York Times
"Millet has perfected charged, science-based prose that takes a surgeon's loupe to how people interact with nature." -- The San Francisco Chronicle
"Dinosaurs is sharp and implacably funny; it evades the sanctimony you'd expect." -- Katy Waldman - The New Yorker

Author Biography: Lydia Millet is the author of A Children's Bible, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top 10 book of 2020, among other works of fiction. She has won awards from PEN Center USA and the American Academy of Arts and Letters and been shortlisted for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her story collection Love in Infant Monkeys was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.