A beautiful and terrifying novel about family, faith, and the search
for home (San Francisco Chronicle), set amidst a community of UFO
cultists in middlest America.
As regular guests on late-night radio shows, Dash and Dot are the
world's most in-demand lecturers on the topic of UFOs and alien
abduction. They believe that we are all descended from M31, the nearest
galaxy to ours, and divide their time between life on the road and a
decommissioned church in the Midwest. A radar dish on its steeple and a
spaceship in its sanctuary complete the modern nuclear-family setting.
When a couple of UFO groupies arrive at the church with their own
agenda, everything changes, brought to a head by their strange beliefs
and the timeless difficulties of modern life. Dash and Dot set out on
their last trip, their ultimate journey, with a destination that no one
could foretell. Written with a fevered vividness and immediacy, M31: A
Family Romance has been hailed as a devastatingly forceful
accomplishment from a star of the first magnitude (the Washington
Post).