Her second, George Bush, Dark Prince of Love (2000), is a political comedy about a trailer-park woman obsessed with the 41st American President.īrief but weighty, her third book, My Happy Life (2002), is a poetic, language-oriented work about a lonely misfit trapped in an abandoned hospital, who writes the poignant story of her life on the walls. Her first book, Omnivores (1996), is a subversion of the coming-of-age novel, in which a young girl in Southern California is tormented by her megalomaniac father and invalid mother and finally sold in marriage to a real estate agent.

Millet is best known for her dark sense of humor, stylistic versatility, and political bent. She worked for Natural Resources Defense Council for two years before joining the Center for Biological Diversity in 1999 as a staff writer. Millet lives in Tucson, Arizona with her two children. She holds a BA in interdisciplinary studies, with highest honors in creative writing, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master's in environmental policy from Duke University. Millet was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Toronto, Canada. Salon wrote of Millet's work, 'The writing is always flawlessly beautiful, reaching for an experience that precedes language itself.' Her third novel, My Happy Life, won the 2003 PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, and she has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Awards-PEN Center USA Award for Fiction Pulitizer finalist.Education-B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill M.S., Duke University.As his pursuit of Anna and their child moves from threatening to criminal, Ned begins to alter his wife’s world in ways she never could have imagined.Ī double-edged and satisfying story with a strong female protagonist, a thrilling plot, and a creeping sense of the apocalyptic, Sweet Lamb of Heaven builds to a shattering ending with profound implications for its characters―and for all of us. But the longer they stay, the less the guests in the dingy motel look like typical tourists―and the less Ned resembles a typical candidate. When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. Lydia Millet’s chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who’s just launched his first campaign for political office.

Blending domestic thriller and psychological horror, this compelling page-turner follows a mother fleeing her estranged husband.

Sweet lamb of heaven