When Ethan explains that he doesn't understand why Lydia and Zac Wyse planned to get married within six months of meeting, she reveals that her pastor suggested the idea “I was talking to my pastor ...

Lydia Millet has published more than a dozen novels and two collections of stories; her latest, “Atavists,” is a bit of both — a novel in stories, a deliciously digestible and of-the-moment read. Each ...