A review by alpal1752
A Children's Bible by Lydia Millet

5.0

That was not what I expected. A Children’s Bible considers what might happen when Climate Change impacts the world enough that social systems begin to shut down, all from the perspective of the teens who at first actively try to live without their group of adults. The book comes off almost like a hypothesis of how adults and kids might handle a drastically changed world. Adults give in fully to their vices of alcohol drugs and partying while loosing their sense of purpose and thus their personalities. Then the kids step up and build sustainable long term changes in their environment and in turn try to care for their parents by creating structure and a community.

In response to reading this book, I almost want to move to the middle of nowhere and build a self sustaining community! Some solar panels, an indoor garden, some chickens? security? Who’s in?!