<p>Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet's sublime new novel—her first since the National Book Award long-listed <i>Sweet Lamb of Heaven</i>—follows a group of 12 eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. </p><p>Contemptuous of their parents who pass their days in a stupor of liquor drugs and sex the children feel neglected and suffocated at the same time. When a destructive storm descends on the summer estate the group's ringleaders—including Eve who narrates the story—decide to run away leading the younger ones on a dangerous foray into the apocalyptic chaos outside.</p><p>As the scenes of devastation begin to mimic events in the dog-eared picture Bible carried around by her beloved little brother Eve devotes herself to keeping him safe from harm.</p><p><i>A Children's Bible</i> is a prophetic heartbreaking story of generational divide—and a haunting vision of what awaits us on the far side of Revelation.</p>
