{"product_id":"my-mother-says-9781642861266","title":"My Mother Says","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Reeling from a breakup, a young Danish woman recovers her sense of self through conversations with parents, friends, and strangers. A sweet and quirky debut about heartbreak, memory, and the endless potential of language.\" \u003ci\u003e―\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003ci\u003eMy Mother Says \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStine Pilgaard\u003c\/b\u003e is a graduate of the Danish Writers'\u003cbr\u003eAcademy and the University of Copenhagen. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eMy Mother Says\u003c\/i\u003e, was a critical and commercial success in Denmark, \u003cbr\u003esecuring its author the Bodil and Jørgen Munch-Christensen Award\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand earning a nomination for the\u003cbr\u003eprestigious Danish Broadcasting Corporation Literature Prize. \u003ci\u003eThe Land of\u003cbr\u003eShort Sentences\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by World Editions, was an instant bestseller\u003cbr\u003eand critics' favorite. It won the prestigious Weekendavisen Litteraturpris and\u003cbr\u003ethe Danish Booksellers' Association's Golden Laurels award. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHunter Simpson\u003c\/b\u003e is originally from North Carolina and lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. Stine Pilgaard's \u003ci\u003eThe Land of Short Sentences \u003c\/i\u003e(World Editions, 2022) was his first published literary translation and won the Scandinavian American Foundation's Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize for 2021. \u003ci\u003eMy Mother Says\u003c\/i\u003e is his second published translation.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"World Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50680291754258,"sku":"9781642861266","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b1bf30d8-daac-49a2-91b7-d99ba9ffe1a1.jpg?v=1734904493","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-mother-says-9781642861266","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}