Sea Monsters: Chloe Aridjis and Juliet Jacques
Thursday 7 February 2019, 7 p.m. · 48 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/7/1/5/2/532517-7-eng-GB/5c1295dbe37e1.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/7/1/5/2/532517-7-eng-GB/5c1295dbe37e1.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/7/1/5/2/532517-7-eng-GB/5c1295dbe37e1.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/7/1/5/2/532517-7-eng-GB/5c1295dbe37e1.jpg 1200w)
Chloe Aridjis’s third novel Sea Monsters (Chatto), set in Mexico in the late 1980s, describes the elopement of Mexico City schoolgirl with a boy she barely knows, in search of freedom, independence and rather more oddly, a troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs who have recently escaped from a Soviet travelling circus. Aridjis was at the shop to read from and talk about her new book, described by Garth Greenwell as ‘mesmerizing, revelatory … a profound and poetic tool for navigating our shared world.’ Aridjis was in conversation with Juliet Jacques.
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