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los angeles
post pandemic life
satire
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social commentary
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suburban fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781324123552
- Weight: 220g
- Dimensions: 140 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 10 Mar 2026
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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From Lydia Millet—“the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves” (Chicago Tribune)—comes an inventive collection of short fiction. Atavists follows a group of families, couples and loners in their collisions, confessions and conflicts in a post-pandemic America of artificially lush lawns, beauty salons, tech-bro mansions, assisted-living facilities, big-box stores, gastropubs, college campuses and medieval role-playing festivals.
Lydia Millet is the author of A Children’s Bible, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times “10 Best Books” of the year. Her first collection of short fiction, Love in Infant Monkeys, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She works at the Center for Biological Diversity and lives outside Tucson, Arizona.
