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Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| National Book Award for FictionFiction | 2020 | Shortlist |
About This Book
A group of children are stuck at a lakeside vacation house with their distracted parents when a biblical-scale storm hits. As the adults deteriorate, the children take matters into their own hands, finding a crumbling old children's bible that seems to mirror the apocalyptic events unfolding around them.
About the Author
Lydia MilletAmerican
Lydia Millet is an American novelist and short story writer born in Boston in 1968. She studied at Cornell University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published numerous novels, including Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (2005) and the Pulitzer Prize–shortlisted How the Dead Dream (2008). Read more →
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