Atavists: Stories
A deliciously digestible and of-the-moment read ... Almost funny. But not quite. Ask the koalas about that.
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Capable ... Deftly told ... If the world outside is doomed, there’s great affection in these stories and in finding each other, along with great awareness of what it means to be a neighbor or a regular customer — or even a viewer of someone else’s life on social media.
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Most of these stories do not stand on their own — they aren’t meant to — which puts a lot of pressure on their cumulative power to stir in readers both the dread and joy of being alive ... Millet is really toeing the line between piercing satire and cynicism. But what’s wrong with cynicism as a coping strategy for mass extinction and ascendant tyranny? That is the question Millet takes up in one of the more affecting stories in the collection ... If nothing else, “Atavists” reminds me that we need to try a hell of a lot harder.
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