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SUMMARY:ON THE OTHER SIDE IS MARCH | NORDIC BOOK CLUB ONLINE
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 October 13 in coordination with West Nordic Film Days\, we’ll read On the Other Side is March by Sólrún Michelsen\, a poignant and darkly witty portrait of aging\, memory and multigenerational caretaking from the first female Faroese writer to ever appear in English. \nI’m a woman in my early sixties. Somewhere between late and never. No longer the career woman\, mother\, housewife\, and lover doing it all… Now I’m wife\, mother\, grandmother and my mother’s mother. But I still have to satisfy all the demands placed on me. \nSo begins Sólrún Michelsen’s tender and darkly witty exploration of what she considers to be the strange\, remaining leg of life’s journey. Her kids are grown and out of the house and she’s faced with a time that\, for years\, she always seemed to be looking toward—a time when she wasn’t needed by somebody or something. But now\, with her mother’s declining health\, she finds herself revisiting childhood scenes\, family hymns\, and folk songs—revealing a lifetime of love\, duty\, awe\, and regret. She tends to her mother amid the stark rhythms of Faroese life\, waiting for a new nursing home that never arrives\, and confronts the reality of being part of the “army of women” who inherit care. In her grief and private goodbye to her mother\, however\, is also a gorgeous meditation about life\, as translator Marita Thomsen says in her afterword\, “in its ragged mundane glory.” \nA lyrical portrait of caretaking and the invisible labor of motherhood\, On the Other Side Is March is a tribute to caretakers across generational lines\, as well as the the rich oral traditions of singing and storytelling that kept the Faroese language alive centuries before its standard written form. This is the first work of Michelsen’s—a best-selling author of novels\, short stories\, poetry\, and children’s literature—to be published in English. It has been translated by Marita Thomsen. \nOn the Other Side is March is available in paperback and ebook from Bookshop.org\, Amazon.com and other retailers. \nRegister
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