by Olga Ravn
First published 2023
Sigrid has built her life around grief for her lost son. The quiet routines of mourning have become her world. Then her husband comes back. He left her when their marriage crumbled under the weight of their tragedy, and now he stands at her door again. Sigrid must face the man she once loved and the decisions that drove them apart. Their conversations unearth buried pain and forgotten tenderness. She begins to see that some connections survive even the deepest wounds. Together they must decide whether the pieces of their broken family can be gathered and made whole again. This is a story about what remains when everything seems lost.
Genres: literary-fiction, contemporary, relationships, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, second-chance
Setting: Denmark
Period: 21st-century
176 pages · Hardcover · New Directions