AWW22 Scary Monsters - Michelle de Kretser

Chaired by Cath Kenneally.


Dual Miles Franklin Award-winner Michelle de Kretser’s Scary
Monsters tells the stories of two immigrant Australians, both of
Asian heritage: Lili, a 22-year-old in 1980s France, and Lyle,
living in a near future semi-dystopian Australia ravaged by
bushfires, intolerance and capitalism. Set in the past and the
future, Scary Monsters is a supremely contemporary novel, with a
sharp dark humour that belies the seriousness of the themes it
explores, and an audacious reversible format that acts as a
playful physical embodiment of the migrant’s disorientation.