{"product_id":"atavists-lydia-millet-9798228490994","title":"Atavists: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fast-moving, heartbreaking collection of linked stories that evokes the joy and alienation between generations and classes in the era of mass overwhelm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Lydia Millet--\"the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves\" (Chicago Tribune)--comes an inventive new collection of short fiction. Atavists follows a group of families, couples, and loners in their collisions, confessions, and conflicts in a post-pandemic America of artificially lush lawns, beauty salons, tech-bro mansions, assisted-living facilities, big-box stores, gastropubs, college campuses, and medieval role-playing festivals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe various \"-ists\" who people these linked stories--from futurists to insurrectionists to cosmetologists--include a professor who's morbidly fixated on an old friend's Instagram account; a woman convinced that her bright young son-in-law is watching geriatric porn; a bodybuilder who lives an incel's fantasy life; a couple who surveil the neighbors after finding obscene notes in their mailbox; a pretentious academic accused of plagiarism; and a suburban ex-marathoner dad obsessed with hosting refugees in a tiny house in his backyard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lydia Millet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798228490994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dreamscape Media\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e CD","brand":"Lydia Millet","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":47135503810815,"sku":"9798228490994","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b8e0cde6-cde8-485c-9faa-f3c671633423.jpg?v=1755010351","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/atavists-lydia-millet-9798228490994","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}