[A] blistering little classic.Millet's wit and her penchant for strange twists produce the kind of climate fiction we need: a novel that moves beyond the realm of reporting and editorial, a story that explores how alarming and baffling it feels to endure the destruction of one's world. Take this book, eat it up.--Ron Charles, Washington Post This superb novel begins as a generational comedy.and turns steadily darker, as climate collapse and societal breakdown encroach. But Millet's light touch never falters; in this time of great upheaval, she implies, our foundational myths take on new meaning and hope.--New York Times Book Review To call it a generational allegory seems like an understatement. Millet is one of the most fascinating novelists working.

--Wall Street Journal Magazine [D]arkly funny and painfully sharp.--Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times Millet mordantly captures the complacency of older generations in the face of apocalypse, and the righteous anger, endurance, and practicality of the young.--New Yorker [C]ompellingly written, compact [and] slyly funny.--Jeffrey Ann Goldie, Boston Globe An American chaos story about a climate-changed future. A Children's Bible gains strength from its contradictions. It is hilarious yet tender; absurd yet chillingly realistic, nostalgic yet prescient.--Halimah Marcus, Electric Lit Blazingly witty.--Entertainment Weekly [A] tense, prophetic.

[and] gripping page-turner.--Donna Bettencourt, Library Journal (starred review) As bewitching, unflinching, wry, and profoundly attuned to the state of the planet as ever, supremely gifted Millet tells a commanding and wrenching tale of cataclysmic change and what it will take to survive.--Donna Seaman, Booklist Eco-fiction dystopias often make our climate future outright calamities of tidal waves and massive tree die-offs. Millet.knows what's coming is likely to be more subtle, and the slow-motion collapse she imagines in her latest novel is what makes it so harrowing.--Mark Athitakis, Kirkus Reviews If you think it's hard to find original voices in contemporary fiction, you're not really reading properly--Millet is one such voice: comic, erudite, humane.--Jonny Diamond, Literary Hub.