Place Of The Heart Av Steinunn Sigurdardottir

<p><b>Winner of the VISA Cultural Prize and the Icelandic National Literature Prize.</b><p><p>Single mother Harpa has always been a misfit. Her physical description is like no other Icelander: so small she self-deprecatingly refers to herself as a dwarf, so dark-skinned she doubts her genetic link to her parents, so strange she nearly believed the children who mistook her for a mythical creature of the forest. Even as an adult, she struggles to make sense of her place in the world.<p><p>So when she sees how her teenage daughter, Edda, has suffered since a close friend¿s drug overdose, Harpa has no choice but to tear her away from her friends in the city. She enlists the help of a friend and loads her reprobate daughter and their belongings into a pickup truck, setting out on a road trip to Iceland¿s bucolic eastern fjords.<p><p>As they drive through the starkly beautiful landscape, winding around volcanic peaks, battling fierce windstorms, and forging ahead to a verdant valley, their p

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