Bug Week: & Other Stories

By Airini Beautrais

Wry examinations of modern life in New Zealand, from a unique voice.

A science educator in domestic chaos fetishizes Scandinavian furniture. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1776563050
• ISBN13: 9781776563050
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Victoria University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"