How the Dead Dream
How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2009, is a first edition novel comprising 256 pages. The story follows T., a wealthy young real-estate developer in Los Angeles, who leads an isolated life. His detachment from family and friends goes unnoticed until a fateful encounter with a coyote on the highway prompts him to reevaluate his existence and the choices he has made.
In this narrative, T. embarks on a transformative journey that challenges his business ambitions and opens him up to the possibility of love. As he grapples with his loneliness, he begins to break into zoos across the country, seeking comfort in the presence of endangered animals. The book explores themes of individualism and community, highlighting the interconnectedness of human and animal lives within the context of modern society.
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As a wealthy, young real-estate developer in Los Angeles, T. lives an isolated life. He has always kept his distance from people — from his doting mother to his crass fraternity brothers — but remains unaware of his loneliness until one night, while driving to Las Vegas, he hits a coyote on the highway.
The experience unnerves him and inspires a transformation that leads T. to question his business pursuits for the first time in his life, to take a chance at falling in love, and finally to begin breaking into zoos across the country, where he finds solace in the presence of animals on the brink of extinction.
A beautiful, heart-wrenching tale, How the Dead Dream is also a riveting commentary on inidividualism and community in the modern social landscape and how the lives of people and animals are deeply entwined. Judged by many — including the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post Book World — to be Millet’s best work to date, it is, as Time Out New York perfectly states: “This beautiful writer’s most ambitious novel yet, a captivating balancing act between full-bodied satire and bighearted insight.”
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