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A Children's Bible
by Lydia Millet
What a cool book. The narrator is a teenage girl on holiday with several families, but from the get-go there is a strong group identity among the children. We had a game of guessing which parents belonged to which kids. We gave demerits. We took boats to the beach… We don’t learn Eve’s name for quite a while.
A storm causes so much damage it brings down the infrastructure of civilization. Eve’s younger brother, Jack, makes correlations between God and Nature, Jesus and Science, the Holy Ghost and Art. The parents are hopeless, but the kids are resourceful. They get some help from a groundskeeper, some “trail angels” and a mysterious property owner. They also meet some of the worst imaginable people possible.
At times I wanted to shake them and say “stop wasting gas on ATV races” or “you better figure out a way to generate your own electricity if you want to keep charging your phones” but somehow the kids manage. There is, however, the lingering question of how long their days are numbered.
Millet does a great job of laying bare themes of civilization, young v. old, good v. evil and the end of the world. And her writing style is delicious.
A storm causes so much damage it brings down the infrastructure of civilization. Eve’s younger brother, Jack, makes correlations between God and Nature, Jesus and Science, the Holy Ghost and Art. The parents are hopeless, but the kids are resourceful. They get some help from a groundskeeper, some “trail angels” and a mysterious property owner. They also meet some of the worst imaginable people possible.
At times I wanted to shake them and say “stop wasting gas on ATV races” or “you better figure out a way to generate your own electricity if you want to keep charging your phones” but somehow the kids manage. There is, however, the lingering question of how long their days are numbered.
Millet does a great job of laying bare themes of civilization, young v. old, good v. evil and the end of the world. And her writing style is delicious.