Full name: M31: A Family Romance

Author: Stephen Wright Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780375712944 0375712941

Dash and Dot--husband and wife; self-professed descendants of aliens from the M31 galaxy--are the world's most in-demand lecturers on the UFO circuit. They live in a decommissioned church in the middle of America, with a radar dish on its steeple and a spaceship in the sanctuary. Their children have the run of the house when Dash and Dot are away. When a couple of UFO groupies show up looking for the extraterrestrial duo, they find instead a nuclear family--or rather, a family gone nuclear--whose comically discomforting world resembles our own as much as it does another world altogether. Similar books: Going Native by Stephen Wright Zero K by Don DeLillo Zazen by Vanessa Veselka The End of the World News by Anthony Burgess The Terranauts by T. Coraghessan Boyle Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers Egg Dancing by Liz Jensen Kalki by Gore Vidal The Arrangement by Elia Kazan You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman Answered Prayers by Truman Capote Running Wild by J. G. Ballard Angels on Toast by Dawn Powell A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde Empire Falls by Richard Russo Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes