Naomi Alderman's 'The Strangers' blends grief memoir with speculative fiction
The Women's Prize-winning author explores loss through a hybrid narrative featuring mysterious new creatures.
Naomi Alderman's new novel "The Strangers" combines elements of bereavement memoir with speculative fiction, according to a review in The Guardian. The book examines grief through an unconventional lens, drawing on philosophical reflections about how people process loss in unpredictable ways.
The narrative incorporates the sudden appearance of a new species described as quasi-badgers that appear to improve soil quality in a local setting. Alderman, who won the Women's Prize for Fiction for "The Power," uses the hybrid form to test the boundaries of how grief can be expressed and understood.
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- The Strangers by Naomi Alderman review – where has this odd new species come from? — The Guardian — Culture
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