A Children's Bible - RealityWyrm

Paperback, 240 pages

Published May 4, 2021 by W. W. Norton & Company.

ISBN:: 978-0-393-86738-1

(1 review)

A Children’s Bible follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Contemptuous of their parents, the children decide to run away when a destructive storm descends on the summer estate, embarking on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside. Lydia Millet’s prophetic and heartbreaking story of generational divide offers a haunting vision of what awaits us on the far side of Revelation.

3 editions

Jessica reviewed A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet

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1 star

This book is a slow burn. Maybe the payoff is worth it, but an f-slur (which I let slide for a couple of audiobook-hours) and a t-slur, neither with anything resembling plot relevance, and it soured my mood on this book. At this point I feel like my time has been wasted by some boring teenagers with boring teenager problems.

If I want to immerse myself in homophobia and climate apocalypse from the perspective of a teenager then I could just hang out at the local community college. No thanks.