Fantastic story, so well told it's hard not to feel like it's a memoir.

"Southeastern Michigan is flat, almost concave; [California] was a world with a x-axis."

I received this selection from BookCulture's "books in translation" subscription. Despite being translated from the Norwegian, it feels like home.

This book hooked me in the first paragraph. On the heels of "The Snow Child," I really have a theme going!