Michelle De Kretser: Scary Monsters [2022] hardback ECONO even the best superhero grandmothers

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Michelle De Kretser: Scary Monsters [2022] hardback ECONO even the best superhero grandmothers'Every page of her story feels charged, like an open circuit waiting for its switch; a lurking wallop. It's magnificent, peerless writing' Guardian 'When my family emigrated it felt as if we'd been stood on our heads.' Michelle de Kretser's electrifying take on scary monsters turns the novel upside down just as migration has upended her characters' lives. Lyle works for a sinister government department in near future Australia. An Asian migrant, he