The Strangers

by Naomi Alderman

Grief as the original reality distortion.

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Naomi Alderman’s mother died, and then the mimmoths appeared — small, intelligent creatures that showed up first in her parents’ garden, then everywhere. “The Strangers” is a hybrid memoir/novel that refuses to explain itself cleanly, and that refusal is the whole point: grief is the original reality-distortion, and Alderman uses speculative fiction to show us how it works from the inside. If you’ve ever felt, in the middle of loss or in the middle of everything being strange, that you were perceiving something real that no one else quite believed — this book will name that feeling with more precision than almost anything else out there.