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Norwegian author Mona Høvring comes together with Joseph Kertes in a poignant conversation about their latest two novels. In Høvring’s Something That Helps, a lonely teenager in coastal Norway, haunted by her mother’s suicide, finds herself drawn into a transformative relationship with an older woman that sends her down a dark path toward reconciliation and a new life. Kertes, who himself escaped from Hungary with his family to Canada after the revolution of 1956, offers up Sirens, a touching story about a sixteen-year-old Roma boy hiding from wartime marauders in Greece who falls in love with a Greek girl willing to risk everything to keep him alive.
Published by Book*hug Press
"Sirens is that rarest of gifts—a novel that holds the whole world.” —Alyssa York, author of Far Cry
Hiding in a coffin beneath barn floorboards, a sixteen-year-old Roma boy named Gabriel evades Bulgarian and German marauders in wartime Greece. Phoebe, a Greek girl his age, keeps him alive by bringing him provisions, and the two inevitably fall in love.
Published by Stonehewer Books
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