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Ghost Lights: A Novel

By Lydia Millet
Ghost Lights: A Novel by Lydia Millet digital book - Fable

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"Surreal, darkly hilarious and profound." —San Francisco Chronicle

Ghost Lights stars an IRS bureaucrat named Hal—a man baffled by his wife’s obsession with her missing employer. In a moment of drunken heroism, Hal embarks on a quest to find the man, embroiling himself in a surreal tropical adventure (and an unexpected affair with a beguiling German woman). Ghost Lights is Lydia Millet at her best—beautifully written, engaging, full of insight into the heartbreaking devotion of parenthood and the charismatic oddity of human behavior.

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““He was a surplus human, a product of a swollen civilization. He was a widget among men.” And here we follow Hal, surplus human, sad sack. That was tough to get through sometimes, but at least it gets better at the halfway mark. Early on, I could see what the author was doing with the main character of this novel in contrast with the main character of the last one: they are each other’s inverses. I was a little annoyed when she came right out and said it. Show, don’t tell! Still, I was glad for the continuation of this plot, and the ideas in this one were as fascinating as in the previous. Less about humans and their relationship with animals and more about their relationships with other humans — the haves and the have-nots. The sacrificial lambs (yes, there are biblical references as usual) who keep the lucky few safely in their lavish lifestyles. I’m looking forward to the last book if only to read more of Millet’s deft handling of themes.”
“This story was utterly uninteresting to me. I don’t want to read about some self-involved old white dude’s midlife crisis, regardless of which continent it takes place on. I described the plot to my then-roommate and she said “I’m sorry. I’m sorry you read that.””

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