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I thought this novella was excellent. It follows a young mother and her son who is about to turn nine through one dramatic night. The prose switches seamlessly between their experiences as they move about their new town separately, late into the cold night. #archipelegobooks

#GratefulReads Day 11: This thin novella has #CharacterYouHateToLove. A single mother and her young son have just moved to a small, seemingly-remote town in Norway where people seem to know everybody else. The boy who is about to celebrate his 9th birthday is convinced that his mother has something special planned out for him; while the mother has seemed to have completely forgotten about it. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-kS1

This is a really short novel (novella?) About a mother and son who go about their day. The tone is really creepy, I was on pins and needles waiting to find out what would happen to them as their day diverged from each other. Very tense and suspenseful, with sparse language. Fits the read harder 2019 book in translation by a woman.