Mª Teresa Giménez Barbat

Star Dust

Original title:

Polvo de estrellas.

About the book:

Star Dust

Conchita was married to a man twenty years older than herself. Quique is the man's twenty year old son.  Living together does not create a mother-son relationship, far from it.  In fact, the Dad's pretty-pretty, mystic and credulous wife, and the brusque, foul-mouthed and sarcastic young rationalist discover that an intense passion has flared up between them.

Do opposite poles attract?  Is love within the family healthy?  What has a self-induced orgasm to do with mystic communication? Is our destiny written in the stars?  Does a having sex need to be something more than just having sex?

These and other questions are answered in this crazy, highly entertaining novel. In it the reader can find out  – among many other things – how a rebirthing therapist ends up being Honorary Member of a Sceptical Association and how an astrophysicist and militant rationalist is abducted by horrendous lizard from outer space.

Here, at last, is a story which is told with both humour and intelligence, and which in passing invites us to reflect on human beings and their place in the cosmos.

About the author:

Maria Teresa Giménez Barbat has a degree from the university of  Barcelona where she studied anthropology and the history of art. She was director of ARP (RAP -Rational Alternative to Pseudoscience)  and is currently one of the promoters of Foro Pensamiento Critico ( Forum on Critical Thinking). In recent years she has worked in the field of human resources.