Dinosaurs on Other Planets
2014
First Published
3.79
Average Rating
208
Number of Pages
A woman battles bluebottles as she plots an ill-judged encounter with a stranger; a young husband commutes a treacherous route to his job in the city, fearful for the wife and small daughter he has left behind; a mother struggles to understand her nine-year-old son’s obsession with dead birds and the apocalypse. In Danielle McLaughlin’s stories, the world is both beautiful and alien. Men and women negotiate their surroundings as a tourist might navigate a distant country: watchfully, with a mixture of wonder and apprehension. Here are characters living lives in translation, ever at the mercy of distortions and misunderstandings, striving to make sense both of the spaces they inhabit and of the people they share them with.
Avg Rating
3.79
Number of Ratings
616
5 STARS
24%
4 STARS
40%
3 STARS
27%
2 STARS
7%
1 STARS
1%
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