Events › Murphy-Wilmot Book Club

Join us to discuss what's hot in fiction and non-fiction. New members are always welcome to drop in on this informal gathering of book lovers.

This month, we are reading Lydia Millet's latest short story collection, Atavists.

A collection of stories that follows a bewildered bartender, a grieving beautician, a jilted urban planner and others as their lives unravel in unexpected ways, revealing primal urges and raw emotions against the backdrop of a fractured, overwhelmed America.

“With her sharply honed perspective on our digital bewitchment and destruction of nature, her shredding wit and depthless compassion, Millet deftly portrays individuals of different generations caught in tech-sparked predicaments absurd, heartbreaking, and enraging. These thought-provoking, surprising, charming, and deeply moving stories illuminate who we are at our core even as our lives are mediated by social media, dating apps, and surveillance cameras, even as the living world is being driven precipitously toward extinction."—Booklist (starred review)