Emily Forever
by Maria Navarro Skaranger
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Pub Date Jun 04 2024 | Archive Date May 31 2024
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Description
In this novel about poverty, social inequality, and class contempt in Norway, nineteen-year-old supermarket worker Emily is single, pregnant, and struggling to make ends meet.
Em’s nineteen years old and pregnant. Her boyfriend Pablo has gone out “to take care of something” and hasn’t returned. Her mother, who raised Emily alone, moves into the little apartment to help. Meanwhile, Em’s neighbour, who may or may not be a clergyman, wonders if it’s normal to be so infatuated with someone you’ve never spoken to. Em’s boss at the supermarket might have feelings for her too, if only she’d notice. Emily Forever is a poignant, achingly hard-hitting book about class and about digging deep to find what it takes to get by. At the same time, it’s a deeply original exploration of how a girl like Emily is seen from the outside, by those who think they know who she is and how her life is supposed to pan out. Empathetic and quizzical, and scathingly humorous, Emily Forever is a novel of unyielding solidarity and smoldering social dissent, by a new star of Scandinavian literature.
Advance Praise
Praise for Emily Forever
“Emily is nineteen years old, works at the supermarket, and is pregnant. Her boyfriend Pablo has gone out ‘to take care of something’ and hasn’t returned. Her mother, who raised Emily alone, moves into the little apartment to help. Emily Forever is a properly defiant novel. It refuses to be categorized. Yes, it deals with class and poverty, but it’s just as much about our gaze on the so-called poor and powerless. Maria Navarro Skaranger has written an intelligent, ironic, vital, and poetic novel, which with its many changes of narrative perspective challenges the reader’s expectations and ideas. With its defiant attitude, Skaranger reminds us that the story of the passive, drowsy, and not very future-oriented Emily is very much one worth telling.” ―Jury, the Critics’ Prize (Norway)
“Skaranger writes with wisdom and heart about the anybodies of society in this brilliant novel. Skaranger is a glowing literary talent, and part of what makes this novel so rich is its inquiring, critical, observing narrative voice.” ―Dagens Næringsliv
“A profoundly beautiful book about a rudderless existence that seems genetically conditioned. Skaranger’s warm prose and deeply felt sympathy for Emily glows throughout the novel.” ―Dagbladet
“In beautiful, intuitive prose, Maria Navarro Skaranger shows how class contempt is expressed in Norway. A fantastic book.” ―Vårt Land
“In a novel distinguished by intelligence and nuanced prose, Maria Navarro Skaranger follows her confused main character into a new life phase. Her body of work exudes a peculiar, beautiful energy.” ―Klassekampen
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781642861372 |
| PRICE | $19.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 162 |
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