Dinosaurs

Over twelve novels and two collections, Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist, writing vividly about the ties between people and other animals and the crisis of extinction. Her exquisite new novel, the first since “A Children's Bible”, tells the story of an Arizona man's relationship with the family next door, whose house has one wall made entirely out of glass. The story delivers attraction and love, friendship and grief. But Millet also evokes the uncanny. Through close observation of human and animal life in the desert, she captures the daunting scale of human society without losing sight of the real difference one person can make in the world. Written with humor and benevolence, “Dinosaurs” asks big questions: Can a person be good? Can a man be good? Compellingly told, emotionally moving, and intellectually rich, “Dinosaurs” may be Millet's finest novel yet.