Jenna is 13 years old and knows that her mother has cancer. “Mom, if you die, I will kill myself,” Jenna writes in a free-form school essay. At the end of the book, she will say completely different words: “Mom, if you die, I will live on. For you».
Jenna is 13 years old and knows that her mother has cancer. “Mom, if you die, I will kill myself,” Jenna writes in a free-form school essay. At the end of the book, she will say completely different words: “Mom, if you die, I will live on. For you». This difficult book — life-affirming, despite the lack of a happy ending — is about the path that a girl will go between these two phrases. 23-year-old Johanna Tiedel’s debut novel won the August Strindberg Prize, Sweden’s most prestigious literary award, and has been translated into 14 languages.
THE WORLD OF CHILDHOOD MEDIA, 336 p.
Daria Rybina