Queen Anne Books

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. 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. 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 "Los Angeles Times" and "The
Washington Post Book World--" to be Millet's best work to date, it is,
as "Time Out New York" perfectly states: "This beautiful writer's most
ambitious novel yet, a captivating balancing act between full-bodied
satire and bighearted insight."