In a claustrophobic, surreal California house, teenager Estee Kraft lives with her domineering father, whose obsession with insect taxonomy bleeds into sadism. As his schemes multiply, Estee's bedridden mother, entranced by the glow of the shopping channel, remains oblivious to the escalating chaos. Estee manages to escape her childhood home only to find new horrors awaiting her in marriage and motherhood. In a climactic twist, her traumas take form in flesh and blood-a legacy of the voracious male appetites that have haunted her life.

With acerbic wit, philosophical depth, and enthralling lyricism, Omnivores cuts to the core of America's hypocrisies and anxieties, and introduced Lydia Millet as one of the wildest satirists of our time.

About the Author
This is Lydia Millet's third story collection. Her first, Love in Infant Monkeys, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2010; her second, Fight No More (2018), won an American Academy of Arts and Sciences short fiction award.

Reviews
"All manner of voracious American appetites-for sex, power, and possessions-are darkly lampooned in this strange, often very funny debut." -- Entertainment Weekly
"Omnivores reads like a cartoon with soul." -- Los Angeles Times
"If Flannery O'Connor came back from the dead and abandoned her fixation with Southern religion, she might be proud to write something like Lydia Millet's astonishing first novel, Omnivores." -- Sun-Sentinel



Book Information
ISBN 9780393635461
Author Lydia Millet
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint WW Norton & Co
Publisher WW Norton & Co
Weight(grams) 155g
Dimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 15mm