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Freya Morris grows up in a
typical American suburb – but every summer, she enters another
realm entirely when she visits her relatives in Gimli, a tiny
village in Canada settled by Icelandic immigrants. Here she
falls under the spell of her troubled but charming aunt Birdie,
who thrills her with stories of exotic Norse goddesses, moody
Viking bards, and the life of her late grandfather, the most
famous poet of “New Iceland.”
But when Birdie tricks Freya into a terrifying scandal, Freya
turns her back on everything Icelandic and anything that reminds
her of the past. She is living an anonymous, bleak existence in
Manhattan when she finally returns to Gimli for the first time
in two decades – and stumbles upon a long concealed family
secret.
As Freya becomes increasingly obsessed with unraveling her
family’s tangled story, she finds herself delving into the very
memories she has worked so hard to forget. When the clues dry up
in Gimli, Freya journeys to Iceland itself. On this rugged
island of vast lava fields and immense glaciers, Freya’s quest
comes to its unsettling conclusion.
A beautifully-written debut novel that deftly weaves together
Iceland’s distinctive history, ancient mythology, reverence for
language, and passion for genealogy, The Tricking of Freya is a
powerful exploration of kinship, loss and redemption. |
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Christina Sunley,
the author
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