{"product_id":"the-strangers","title":"The Strangers","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Compulsively engrossing, \u003ci\u003eThe Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e draws us into an uncanny world of hurt and tenderness. Speculative fiction with brains and heart.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmma Donoghue, author of Room and The Paris Express\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An entirely new species of writing about grief. I loved this weird, warm-blooded, and inquisitive book.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEleanor Catton, Booker Prize-winning author of Birnam Wood and The Luminaries\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNaomi Alderman \u003c\/b\u003eis the bestselling author of \n\u003ci\u003eThe Power\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, and was chosen as a book of the year by the \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \n\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \n\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times. \u003c\/i\u003eAlderman is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was chosen by Margaret Atwood as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. As a video games designer, she is the cocreator and lead writer of the bestselling smartphone exercise adventure game \n\u003ci\u003eZombies, Run! \u003c\/i\u003eShe is professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University and lives in London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A multi-layered treat of a novel, wise, honest, and wonderfully strange. I loved it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e-- \n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Waters, author of The Little Stranger and The Paying Guests\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Power \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ecomes a part memoir, part speculative novel, following a writer wrestling with grief even as a new species is discovered, forcing humans to reconsider what it means to share our planet.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThey came from nowhere, and now they are everywhere. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A few months after her mother dies, the novelist Naomi Alderman sets up a wildlife camera in the back garden of her parents' home. It captures the first image of a strange new animal. Low to the ground, about the size of a badger, flat face, long, trunk-like nose. Suddenly these \"mimmoths\" are as common as foxes or dogs. And no one knows where they've come from. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As Alderman negotiates the territory of grief--a place with its own logic and rhythms--the mimmoths spread. From the UK east and west, to the United States, to Russia, to India. They seem harmless, but oddly intelligent. They cannot be captured, they will not take food from humans, they have their own purposes. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Alderman cannot shake the feeling that she has a particular connection to the creatures. Or is she just succumbing to 'mimmoth psychosis'? As the impact of the mimmoths increases, she is pulled into the cross currents of conspiracy theories and global power struggles. Have her deeply personal forms of mourning lent recent events a surreal air, or is our reality changing drastically and irrevocably? \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From the award-winning author of the international bestseller, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Power, The Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrillingly original and devastatingly moving novel that blurs the lines between fiction and reality, inviting us to reconsider what it means to be human. It's like nothing you'll have read before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 07\/01\/2026 pg. 42 (EAN 9780316594776, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Little Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496243953942,"sku":"9780316594776","price":34.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780316594776.jpg?v=1783058043","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/the-strangers","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}