Wait, Blink
✍ Scribed by Gunnhild Øyehaug
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 174 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0374285896
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✦ Synopsis
**Wait, Blink**is the first English-language translation of award-winning Norwegian author Gunnhild Øyehaug's inventive novel of interwoven stories following a group of artistic women pursuing their ambitions despite endless distractions and disappointments.
Sigrid is a young literature student trying to find her voice as a writer when she falls in love with an older, established author, whose lifestyle soon overwhelms her values and once-clear vision. Trine has reluctantly become a mother and struggles to create as a performance artist. The aspiring movie director Linnea scouts locations in Copenhagen for a film she will never make. As these characters' stories collide and intersect, they find that dealing with the pressures of their lives also means coming to grips with a world both frightening and joyously ridiculous.
Wait, Blink combines wild associations, quotations, coincidences, and other peculiar details into a unique tale that is...
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