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Before You Sleep Book
Linn Ullmann's bold first novel Before You Sleep is wonderfully edgy, veering close to bleakness, but is rescued by the wacky and surreal irreverence of its narrator, the chippy-chirpy Karin Blom. Interweaving in-your-face realism with moments of deliciously wild fantasy, she does the unthinkable and unsayable. And she can sing a Gershwin tune to seduce any man--even one who won't take his boots off in bed. Short scenes, sideswipes, flashbacks, speculations, are all looped and intercut together as Karin recreates three generations of Blom women travelling from Norway to 1940s' Brooklyn and back to 1990s' Oslo. Mismatches, infidelities, rivalries litter their paths, making each unhappy family miserable in its own way. Grandfather had fallen in love with one sister but married the other … read more...
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