Children's Bible, A

I love the premise and the use of first person plural. More layered than you might think. It’s a story about precious teenagers who are simply over their parents and then it becomes something else entirely. I think there could have been more development of the catalytic event and it’s aftermath. The......more

In this masterful dystopian novel, Lydia Millet makes extensive and very effective use of first person plural narration to set up a generational divide between 12 children and their parents. The narrator describes the story in terms of the collective action of the "we" children, who are completely n......more

In the beginning, the kids are alright. The adults, though, are already sliding toward Sodom and Gomorrah. That’s the starting point of Lydia Millet’s novel “A Children’s Bible,” which offers a bracing reflection on the generational conflict playing out in the atmosphere. I swear on a stack of copies......more

5+ out of 5. Sometimes you read a book that strikes at your present moment more forcefully than the author could've ever imagined. A CHILDREN'S BIBLE is that kind of book, and if there's any justice, this is the book that people are going to come out of the coronavirus quarantine holding up as The Bo......more

2/27/25: Reread for my Spring 25 YAL class. A class favorite. 2/2/14/24: Reread for Spring 2024 YAL class, sort of in conjunction with Dry by Neil Shusterman, a YA novel, also dystopian about our world set on fire through climate change, and the kids on their own, left with the world we have given t......more