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SUMMARY:NORDIC BOOK CLUB ONLINE | LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR
DESCRIPTION:Read and discuss literature with our Nordic Book Club Online! Nordic Book Club meets monthly via Zoom to discuss contemporary literature in translation. On December 9\, we’ll be discussing Lowest Common Denominator by Finnish author Pirkko Saisio\, translated from the Finnish by Mia Spangenberg. \n\nFor readers of Eileen Myles and Patti Smith\, Lowest Common Denominator is an ecstatic coming-of-age novel by the Finlandia-prize-winning author of The Red Book of Farewells \n\n\nWriting in the wake of her father’s death\, the narrator of Pirkko Saisio’s autofictional novel transports us to the 1950s Finland of her youth\, where she navigates life as an only child of communist parents. Convinced she will grow up to become a man\, a young Saisio keeps trying and failing to meet the expectations of the adults around her. Writing with her trademark wit and style\, each formative experience—with the Big Bad Wolf\, a bikini-clad circus announcer\, and Jesus Christ “who has a beard like a man but a skirt and long hair like a woman”—drives her further and further from her family and others. Struggling to understand her place in the world around her\, it’s in language that she discovers a refuge and a way to be seen at last. \nLowest Common Denominator is available in hardback and ebook from Bookshop.org and Amazon\, and in hardback from the Center for the Art of Translation. \n\n“Saisio beautifully captures the wonder and horror that can coexist in a child’s imagination”—Publishers Weekly \nRegister
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