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W. W. Norton & Company
256 pages
Product Description
<p><strong>A funny and haunting new novel from "one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation" (<em>Los Angeles Times</em>).</strong></p>Hal is a mild-mannered IRS bureaucrat who suspects that his wife is cheating with her younger, more virile coworker. At a drunken dinner party, Hal volunteers to fly to Belize in search of Susan's employer, T.—the protagonist of Lydia Millet's much-lauded novel <em>How the Dead Dream</em>—who has vanished in a tropical jungle, initiating a darkly humorous descent into strange and unpredictable terrain. <br /><br /> <em>Salon</em> raved that Millet's "writing is always flawlessly beautiful, reaching for an experience that precedes language itself." In <em>Ghost Lights</em>, she combines her characteristic wit and a sharp eye for the weirdness that governs human (and nonhuman) interactions. With the scathing satire and tender honesty of Sam Lipsyte and a dark, quirky, absurdist style reminiscent of Joy Williams, Millet has created a comic, startling, and surprisingly philosophical story about idealism and disillusionment, home and not home, and the singular, heartbreaking devotion of parenthood.