Atavists: Stories by Millet, Lydia
Atavists: Stories by Millet, Lydia

Atavists: Stories

From Lydia Millet--"the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves" (Chicago Tribune)--comes...
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Author: Lydia Millet
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Language: English
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Atavists: Stories by Millet, Lydia

Atavists: Stories

$72.46
Atavists: Stories by Millet, Lydia

Atavists: Stories

$72.46
Author: Lydia Millet
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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From Lydia Millet--"the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves" (Chicago Tribune)--comes 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 "-ists" who people these linked stories--from futurists to insurrectionists to cosmetologists--include a professor who's morbidly fixated on an old friend's Instagram account; a woman convinced that her bright young son-in-law is watching geriatric porn; a bodybuilder who lives an incel's 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.



Author: Lydia Millet
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/22/2025
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781324074410
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