M31: A Family Romance

M31: A Family Romance is the second novel written by Stephen Wright. First published in 1988 by Harmony Books, it is a dark satire about media and mass culture as filtered through the lens of a fictional family with extraterrestrial ties.

First edition, cover art by Peter Schroth

The Los Angeles Times reviewed M31 as “a novel of original and wide ambitions, largely achieved.”[1] Laura Miller proposed in 2004 that the “undersung” M31 is a candidate for the Great American Novel.[2]

References
  1. Mooney, Ted. "Extraterrestrial Roots : M31 A Family Romance by Stephen Wright". The Los Angeles Times.
  2. Miller, Laura. "THE LAST WORD; The Paranoid States of America". The New York Times.
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