A Children's Bible
Lydia Millet · 2020
Children at a summer house watch the adult world fail and try to survive without it. Millet's climate novel uses biblical allegory with such lightness of touch that you barely notice you're reading about civilizational collapse until you already are.
The case against
Millet stacks the deck: every adult is a drunk, a lecher, or a coward, and the kids are wise beyond their years or anyone's. The satire lands for fifty pages, then repeats itself. And the biblical parallels, feather-light at the start, get circled in red pen by the end, in case you missed the flood.
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