Omnivores

by Lydia Millet

Book Overview

In a claustrophobic, surreal California house, teenager Est?e Kraft lives with her domineering father, whose obsession with insect taxonomy bleeds into sadism. As his schemes multiply, Est?e's bedridden mother, entranced by the glow of the shopping channel, remains oblivious to the escalating chaos. Est?e manages to escape her childhood home only to find new horrors awaiting her in marriage and motherhood. In a climactic twist, her traumas take...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393635465
• ISBN13: 9780393635461
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

The best damned fiction available in a country of fiction

Lydia Millet succeeds where everyone but James Joyce fails. She creates a language of dichotomous touchstones known to some, feared by most, swallowed, digested, and converted to the very lives of others. Nothing comes close to Millet's diffraction of neo-americana.If you are going to read one book this year, read this one, then dial 911.

She is the future of writing

Omnivore is the most impressive first novel I've read in a long time. I'm eagerly awaiting Ms. Millet's next work