The Bodhisattva

More exclusive goodness! I have the first chapter from the latest novel by one of my favorite writers! Yesterday over at BookSpot Central I put up the first chapter to a How to the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet. Her previous novel, Oh Pure and Radiant Heart was short-listed for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and her Everyone’s Pretty won the PEN-USA Award for Fiction in 2003.

Synopsis:

An only child in a typical middle-American family, T.’s first love is money, specifically the faces on the bills - Jackson, Hamilton, and Lincoln. As his peers go through teen crises, T accumulates, playing the responsible capitalist, setting up a successful real estate business.

But T’s material life begins to change as he adopts a dog, meets a girl, and takes his mother in after she splits up with his father. But when events conspire to leave T isolated again he starts to lose faith in people and civilisation and turns to nature instead, developing a strange and powerful obsession with endangered animals.

How the Dead Dream is a brilliant, moving satire about human loneliness and environmental loss, from one of America’s most exciting literary voices.

GO READ THE EXCERPT NOW!

I would like to thank Soft Skull Press and Lydia Millet for allowing us to present this!

Please check out all of our other exclusives for more chapters/excerpts from novels and complete short stories from collections and anthologies to sample! BookSpot Central is the choice for several publishers to bring you the goods!

I hope you enjoy!