A CHILDREN'S BIBLE

An indelible novel of teenage alienation and adult complacency in an unraveling world.Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millets sublime new novel?her first since the National Book Award long-listed Sweet Lamb of Heaven?follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion.Contemptuous of their parents, who pass their days in a st upor of liquor, drugs, and sex, the children feel neglected and suffocated at the same time. When a destructive storm descends on th e summer ...[Read more]