M31 by Stephen Wright
A "beautiful and terrifying" novel about family, faith, and the search for home (San Francisco Chronicle), set amidst a community of UFO cultists in middlest America.
As regular guests on late-night radio shows, Dash and Dot are the world's most in-demand lecturers on the topic of UFOs and alien abduction. They believe that we are all descended from M31, the nearest galaxy to ours, and divide their time between life on the road and a decommissioned church in the Midwest. A radar dish on its steeple and a spaceship in its sanctuary complete the modern nuclear-family setting.
When a couple of UFO groupies arrive at the church with their own agenda, everything changes, brought to a head by their strange beliefs and the timeless difficulties of modern life. Dash and Dot set out on their last trip, their ultimate journey, with a destination that no one could foretell. Written with a fevered vividness and immediacy, M31: A Family Romance has been hailed as "a devastatingly forceful accomplishment" from "a star of the first magnitude" (the Washington Post).
Stephen Wright is a Widjabul resident. His pieces have won the Eureka St Prize, the Nature Conservancy Prize, the Overland NUW Fair Australia Prize (twice), and the Scarlett Award, among others, and have been shortlisted for several others. Stephen works part-time as the manager of a NSW non-profit that provides men's behavior change programs for men who use violence in the household, as well as a counsellor who provides long-term psychotherapy to women and men who have endured childhood violence and abuse. Little Owl will publish Stephen's nonfiction novella A Lantern, Brought Down a Dark Road.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780316427296 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316427292 |
| Title | M31 |
| Author | Stephen Wright |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Back Bay Books |
| Year published | 2020-01-07 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |