Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser magazine For the Moon has long

For the Moon has long functioned as an “empty vessel” into which we pour our “ambitions and animosities”

The 17th and 18th-century logging camps established by the British later became the modern nation of Belize

as well as the “rough parts of living in confined quarters in an alien element” – such as having to clean up a “gallon-sized ball of urine mixed with acid” after a “toilet mishap”

This novel is a story about compassion and kindness and what we must do to survive

as well as thriving

Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser magazine For the Moon has longEvery 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 fears