Dinosaurs

The stunning new novel from the author of the National Book Award–finalist A Children’s Bible

"Tender but never sentimental, wearing its intelligence in a low-slung style, Dinosaurs is a garden of earthly delights."

"Deceptively simple and quietly lovely, Dinosaurs is a compassionate character study of a loner who discovers community. "

"Effortlessly readable... there is something new and unusual about Dinosaurs."

"Quietly powerful"

"This gentle, redemptive novel follows a damaged, trusting man as he heals through human connection and requited love… it leaves a warm afterglow and an optimism that lingers."

"Dinosaurs’ solidifies a new phase of Millet’s career. . . . The spaciousness of the style makes the sense of loss richer and the questions posed — what constitutes moral action, how best can we help one another — at once simpler and more profound."

"Millet has perfected charged, science-based prose that takes a surgeon’s loupe to how people interact with nature."

"Dinosaurs is sharp and implacably funny; it evades the sanctimony you’d expect."

Lydia Millet is the author of A Children’s Bible, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times “10 Best Books” of the year. Her first collection of short fiction, Love in Infant Monkeys, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She works at the Center for Biological Diversity and lives outside Tucson, Arizona.