Atavists: Stories
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A Harper's Bazaar "BesBook Coming Out This Spring"Pick &8226One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 &8226One of The Millions's Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2025A fast-moving, heartbreaking collection of short fiction from "theAmerican writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves"(Chicago Tribune).The 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&8212afluent triumph of storytelling, rich in ideas and emotions both petty and grand.The titular atavists include an underachieving, bewildered young bartender a middle-aged mother convinced her gentle son-in-law is fixated on geriatric porn a bodybuilder with an incel&8217sfantasy life an arrogant academic accused of plagiarism and an empty-nester dad determined to host refugees in a tiny house in his backyard.As they pick away at the splitting seams in American culture, Millet&8217scharacters shimmer with the sense of powerlessness we share in an era of mass overwhelm. A beautician in a waxing salon faces a sudden resurgence of grief in the midst of a bikini Brazilian a couple sets up a camera to find out who&8217sbeen slipping homophobic letters into their mailbox a jilted urban planner stalks a man she met on a dating app.In its rich warp and weft of humiliations and human error, Atavists returns to the trenchant, playful social commentary