Peter Chilson

Disturbance-Loving Species is a collection that contains a novella and several short stories. All of the stories take place in either West Africa or America and have characters from both cultures, thus the theme of the stories is the tension experienced as the characters attempt to navigate their way through another culture.

I didn't find the stories to be incredibly engaging, nor the characters very intriguing or well-developed. Many of the descriptions of African culture seemed show more over-generalized and didn't really illustrate the complicated nature of cross-cultural interactions. show less

Interesting book that was quite obviously written by a teacher. I once took a creative writing class and I felt like I was taking the class again as I read the book. Too many unnecessary metaphors, too redundant, and 178 pages that felt like I should have learned a lot more than I did. Still, interesting little read.