M31: A Family Romance
{{short description|1988 novel by Stephen Wright}}
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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.
The Los Angeles Times reviewed M31 as “a novel of original and wide ambitions, largely achieved.”{{cite web |last1=Mooney |first1=Ted |title=Extraterrestrial Roots : M31 A Family Romance by Stephen Wright |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-11-bk-2880-story.html |work=The Los Angeles Times}} Laura Miller proposed in 2004 that the “undersung” M31 is a candidate for the Great American Novel.{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Laura |title=THE LAST WORD; The Paranoid States of America |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/07/books/the-last-word-the-paranoid-states-of-america.html |work=The New York Times}}