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(0)Ida Jessen
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Archipelago Books edition.
Language
English
Description
Set in rural Denmark in the early 20th century, A Change of Time tells the story of a schoolteacher whose husband, the town doctor, has passed away. Her subsequent diary entries form an intimate portrait of a woman rebuilding her identity, and a small rural town whose path to modernity echoes her own path to joyful independence.
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Archipelago Books edition.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman witnesses a terrible accident with unexpected consequences, a mother sits with her unconscious son in a hospital room, a pair of sisters remember their mother's hands braiding their hair. The women in these quietly intense stories are all in one way or another out of sync with their lives and with themselves, women who appease and indulge, fret and acquiesce. Women who yearn to connect, who struggle to come to terms with unfulfilled...