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Book SynopsisWhen Kjersti A. Skomsvold was seventeen years old and about to start engineering studies at college, she found herself almost unable to move. “Laid out like a relic” in a nursing home, she listens to an old woman dying, watches her boyfriend drift away, and makes compendious lists of her worries (that she will have to go speed-dating in a wheelchair, that she will be afraid and in pain for the rest of her life). She also begins to compose a novel on Post-it notes that she sticks on the wall above her bed.
Trade Review"Bold, witty, and deeply existential,
Monsterhuman is a bildungsroman that turns the story of a young woman's chronic fatigue syndrome into an intellectual journey, at once grave and comic." * Paris Review *
"Another gifted Norwegian." * Irish Times *
"A masterwork of control and characterization."
[The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am] * National Public Radio *
"Norwegian author Kjersti Skomsvold's debut
[The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am] . . . is a sparkling jewel of a novel." * Publishing Perspectives *
