We kick off our climate fiction series Apocalypse Soon! with a review of Lydia Millet's A Children's Bible. We discuss the narrative voice and the tone of this eerie apocalyptic allegory. We also talk about how Millet uses the bible here as a way of structuring the book and whether or not this book is realist or (gasp) magical realism. And as always, one of us loved this book and would recommend it to everyone (but you'll never guess who!).
This is the first book in our series on climate fiction. In our upcoming episodes we will also read and discuss The Man with the Compound Eyes by Wu Ming Yi and Weather by Jenny Offill.
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