{"product_id":"bug-week-other-stories-9781776563050","title":"Bug Week: \u0026 Other Stories","description":"A science educator in domestic chaos, fetishises, Scandinavian furniture, and champagne flutes. A group of 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. \u003ci\u003eBug Week\u003c\/i\u003e is a scalpel-clean examination of male entitlement, a dissection of death, an agar plate of mundanity. From 1960s Wellington to post-Communist Germany, \u003ci\u003e Bug Week \u003c\/i\u003etraverses the weird, the wry, and the grotesque in a story collection of human taxonomy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAirini Beautrais \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Auckland in 1982. Her work has appeared in a range of journals and anthologies in Aotearoa and elsewhere. She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eFlow: Whanganui River Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (VUP, 2017). Her first collection, \u003ci\u003eSecret Heart \u003c\/i\u003e(VUP, 2006), won the Jessie Mackay Award for First Book of Poetry at the 2007 NZ Book Awards. In 2016 she won the Landfall Essay Prize. She has also been a judge for a number of awards, including the 2018 Ockham NZ Book Awards. She lives in Whanganui with her two sons and two cats.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Victoria University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51253963653394,"sku":"9781776563050","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a7a2fd1c-b0ce-4b70-a586-ee76dde23b54.jpg?v=1746301138","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bug-week-other-stories-9781776563050","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}