Lydia Millet Books
How the Dead Dream
By Lydia Millet
A young Los Angeles real estate developer consumed by power and political ambitions finds his orderly, upwardly mobile life thrown into chaos by the sudden appearance of his nutty mother, who's bee...
Read MoreOh Pure and Radiant Heart
By Lydia Millet
Transported to the 21st century, Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, and Enrico Fermi grapple with the legacy of the atom bomb in this “shattering and beautiful” time travel novel (Entertainment...
Read MoreMy Happy Life
By Lydia Millet
At the opening of My Happy Life, the unnamed narrator has been abandoned in a locked room of a deserted mental hospital. She hasn't seen the nice man who brings her food in days; so she's eaten the...
Read MoreLove in Infant Monkeys
By Lydia Millet
Animals and celebrities share unusual relationships in these hilarious satirical stories by an award-winning contemporary writer. Lions, Komodo dragons, dogs, monkeys, and pheasants—all hav...
Read MoreEveryone's Pretty
By Lydia Millet
A “supremely wacky [and] astute” novel by a PEN Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist (The Washington Post).In Los Angeles, Dean Decetes, a pornographer with messianic delusions, spi...
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