Atavists: Stories -- Lydia Millet, Hardcover

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Atavists: Stories -- Lydia Millet, HardcoverThe word atavism, coined by a botanist and popularized by a criminologist, refers to the resurfacing of a primitive evolutionary trait or urge in a modern being. This inventive collection from Lydia Millet offers overlapping tales of urges ranging from rage to jealousy to yearning a fluent triumph of storytelling, rich in ideas and emotions both petty and grand. The titular atavists include an underachieving, bewildered young bartender; a middle aged

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Little ones will be intrigued by sea life like sharks

and the junk heaps were cleaned up and the sagging doors were put back on their hinges

Great on its own or paired with DBT For Dummies

author of The Shining and Carrie

up north to the Galilee and the coastal cities of Haifa and Akka

in December and One Last Gift

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And what happens when she finds out

and his former second-in-command at the Sûreté

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