My mother says / Stine Pilgaard ; translated from the Danish by Hunter Simpson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pilgaard, Stine, 1984- author.

Contributor:

Simpson, Hunter, translator.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Min mor siger. English

Language:

Danish

English

Subjects (All):

Denmark--Fiction.

Denmark.

Lesbians--Fiction.

Lesbians.

Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations.

Conversation--Fiction.

Conversation.

Genre:

Fiction.

Humorous fiction.

Lesbian fiction.

Physical Description:

150 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : World Editions, 2023.

Language Note:

In English, translated from the Danish.

Summary:

"The narrator's long-term girlfriend has just broken things off, forcing her to move back in with her father, a Pink Floyd-loving priest. While she desperately tries to convince her girlfriend to reconsider, the rest of the world bombards her with advice: from her childhood friend Mulle to her kindly therapist to her overbearing mother and card-playing father. Bumbling through the fog of disillusionment, the narrator gives herself permission to grieve, philosophize, and be generally outrageous until at last she sees a light at the end of the tunnel. My Mother Says is a compendium of conversations between people who talk past one another in a universe of misplaced good intentions. In this whirlwind of memories, confessions, temper tantrums, and declarations of love, Pilgaard's sheer affection for her characters turns the pain of a broken heart into a heartwarming comedy of errors"--Back cover.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781642861266

164286126X

OCLC:

1381018148

Publisher Number:

99996066022