Bug Week

& Other Stories

Airini Beautrais

• Publisher: Victoria University Press
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781776563821
• Edition: 1

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. Bug Week is a scalpel-clean examination of male entitlement, a dissection of death, an agar plate of mundanity. From 1960s Wellington to post-Communist Germany, Bug Week traverses the weird, the wry, and the grotesque in a story collection of human taxonomy.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Bug Week
• Living the dream
• A pair of hands
• Psycho ex
• The baddest Toroa in town
• The turtle
• Billy the Pirate Poet
• A summer of scents
• The girl who shaved the moose
• Sin City
• Trashing the flowers
• The teashop
• A quiet death
• Acknowledgements