Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a
major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen
Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction
that vividly evokes the ties between people and other animals and the
crisis of extinction.
Her exquisite new novel 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.
Dinosaurs is both sharp-edged and tender, an emotionally moving,
intellectually resonant novel that asks: In the shadow of existential
threat, where does hope live?