How the Dead Dream

How the Dead Dream

<P>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 highway.</p> <p>The experience unnerves him and inspires a transformation that leads T. to question his business pursuits for the first time in his life, to take a chance at falling in love, and finally to begin breaking into zoos across the country, where he finds solace in the presence of animals on the brink of extinction.</p> <p>A beautiful, heart-wrenching tale, How the Dead Dream is also a riveting commentary on inidividualism and community in the modern social landscape and how the lives of people and animals are deeply entwined. Judged by many €" including the <I>Los Angeles Times</I> and <I>The Washington Post Book World </I>€" to be Millet's best work to date, it is, as <I>Time Out New York</I> perfectly states: "This beautiful writer's most ambitious novel yet, a captivating balancing act between full-bodied satire and bighearted insight."