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 hi[...]

On the grounds of a Caribbean island resort, newlyweds Deb and Chip our opinionated, skeptical narrator and her cheerful jock husband who's friendly to a fault meet a marine biologist who says she's sighted mermaids in a coral reef. As the resort's "parent company" swoops in to corner the market on [...]

Consumed by his ambitions for political power, upwardly mobile real estate developer "T." finds his life and latest project thrown into chaos by his suicidal mother, homosexual father, and two deaths, a change of circumstances during which he nurtures a growing obsession with vanishing species.[...]

"Fascinating and thought provoking "Pills and Starships" is a chilling look at an ecologically damaged future where big business and the government have not only seized control of the surviving population through drugs, but have taken charge of death itself. Lydia Millet has raised questions that w[...]