{"product_id":"atavists","title":"Atavists By Millet, Lydia","description":"From Lydia Millet—“the American writer with the funniest, wisest grasp on how we fool ourselves” (Chicago Tribune)—comes an inventive new collection of short fiction. Atavists follows a group of families, couples and loners in their collisions, confessions and conflicts in a post-pandemic America of artificially lush lawns, beauty salons, tech-bro mansions, assisted-living facilities, big-box stores, gastropubs, college campuses and medieval role-playing festivals.   The various “-ists” who people these linked stories—from futurists to insurrectionists to cosmetologists—include a professor who’s morbidly fixated on an old friend’s Instagram account; a woman convinced that her bright young son-in-law is watching geriatric porn; a bodybuilder who lives an incel’s fantasy life; a couple who surveil the neighbours after finding obscene notes in their mailbox; a pretentious academic accused of plagiarism; and a suburban ex-marathoner father obsessed with hosting refugees in a tiny house in his garden.","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57844712079742,"sku":"NW9781324074410","price":21.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/atavists","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}