Praise for HOW THE DEAD DREAM

A Los Angeles Times and Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

“The writing is always flawlessly beautiful, reaching for an experience that precedes language itself.”

—Salon

 

“Millet’s extraordinary leap of a novel warns us that as the splendor and mystery of the natural world is replaced by the human-made, our species faces a lonely and spiritually impoverished future.”

—Booklist (starred review)

 

“In her novels, abstract, poetic passages bemoan the fate of humanity alongside goofy, broad-stroked depictions . . . [How the Dead Dream] is no exception . . . [it] synthesizes the two styles of Millet’s fiction—the harrowing and the madcap—with a new elegance.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

 

“[Millet’s] best when she makes startlingly odd events seem wholly real . . . but what’s more profound is Millet’s understanding of the loneliness and alienation in a world being poisoned to death.”

—The Washington Post

 

“Elegantly written and intellectually sophisticated . . . [How the Dead Dream is] a frightening and gorgeous vision of human decline.”

—Utne

 

“What Millet has managed to do with How the Dead Dream and 2005’s wonderful atomic fable Oh Pure and Radiant Heart is to writes fiction that confronts social issues without falling into shrill hectoring or dull didacticism . . . her steady hand and subtle voice are what make them work as well as they do.”

—The Believer

 

“[Millet] has pulled off her funniest, most shrewdly thoughtful and touching novel. If Kurt Vonnegut were still alive, he would be extremely jealous.”

—Village Voice