From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Millet proves no less lyrical, haunting or deliciously absurd in her brilliant sixth novel than in her fifth, the acclaimed
Oh Pure & Radiant Heart. As a boy, T. keeps his distance from others, including his loving but vacant parents, preferring to explore his knack for turning a dollar. Before long, he's a wealthy but lonely young real estate developer in L.A. Just after he adopts, on impulse, a dog from the pound, his mother shows up and announces that T.'s father has left her. His mother, increasingly erratic, moves in; meanwhile, T. finally meets and falls in love with Beth, a nice girl who understands him, but a cruel twist of fate soon leaves him alone again. As his mother continues to unravel, T. finds unexpected consolation in endangered animals at the zoo, and he starts breaking into pens after hours to be closer to them. The jungle quest that results, while redolent of
Heart of Darkness and
Don Quixote, takes readers to a place entirely Millet's own, leavened by very funny asides. At once an involving character study and a stunning meditation on loss—planetary and otherwise—Millet's latest unfolds like a beautiful, disturbing dream.
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The finest book yet by one of my favourite contemporary American writers' Permeated with a dark, irreverent humour Financial Times Odd and compelling...surprising and funny...Millet is an interesting thinker Guardian Bewitching Scotland on Sunday Sad, strange and as jumpily shocking as an electric fence, How The Dead Dream brilliantly evokes a barren world in which human loneliness and environmental loss are inevitable consequences when a culture values capitalism over compassion Metro With dark and bloody eloquence the novel charts the rise and fall of young Thomas. A beautifully bitter book Irish News Millet's book is quiet and deep. It shouldn't work but it does, thanks to exquisite writing and an ability to plumb the hidden depths of her characters' souls and resurface with something meaningful Psychologies Engaging...focused and articulate Times Literary Supplement
