Lydia Millet is the author of 12 novels and two collections, including A Children’s Bible, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2020, among other works of fiction; and the collection Love in Infant Monkeys, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Dinosaurs (W. W. Norton & Company) is the story of a man named Gil who walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new neighbors move into the glass-walled house next door, and his life begins to mesh with theirs. In this warmly textured, drily funny, and philosophical account of Gil’s unexpected devotion to the family, Millet explores the uncanny territory where the self ends, and community begins – what one person can do in a world beset by emergencies. In the shadow of existential threat, where does hope live?
