Bug Week

Author: Airini Beautrais

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  • : 9781776563050
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GOOD BOOKS Staff Review
One of the best short story collections to come out of Aotearoa, IMHO. If you're into eavesdropping into relationships at varying levels of dysfunction and people who are dissatisfied with their lives but don't know how or why, this is the book for you. It's funny and disturbing and just really, really good. - Eamonn 

Description

A science educator in domestic chaos fetishises Scandinavian furniture and champagne flutes. A group of white-collar deadbeats attend a swinger's party in the era of drunk Muldoon. A pervasive smell seeps through the walls of a German housing block. A seabird performs at an open-mic night. Bug Week is a scalpel-clean examination of male entitlement, a dissection of death, an agar plate of mundanity. From 1960s Wellington to post-Communist Germany, Bug Week traverses the weird, the wry and the grotesque in a story collection of human taxonomy.  

Awards

Winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction - Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021

Author description

Airini Beautrais was born in Auckland in 1982. Her work has appeared in a range of journals and anthologies in Aotearoa and elsewhere. She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Flow: Whanganui River Poems (VUP, 2017). Her first collection, Secret Heart (VUP, 2006), won the Jessie Mackay Award for First Book of Poetry at the 2007 NZ Book Awards. In 2016 she won the Landfall Essay Prize. She has also been a judge for a number of awards, including the 2018 Ockham NZ Book Awards. She lives in Whanganui with her two sons and two cats.