Before you sleep

Author / Creator

Ullmann, Linn, 1966-

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"Through the sublimely unreliable voice of its narrator, Karin, Before You Sleep ranges from present-day Oslo to 1930s Brooklyn to tell the story of the emotional legacies of the Blom family. Karin...

"Through the sublimely unreliable voice of its narrator, Karin, Before You Sleep ranges from present-day Oslo to 1930s Brooklyn to tell the story of the emotional legacies of the Blom family. Karin is at once playful and melancholy, candid and elusive - a serial seductress who defines herself in contrast to the women in her life: her mother, Anni, the golden-haired, green-eyed virtuoso of manipulation, impossible to resist, with a seemingly endless arsenal of melodrama at her disposal; her sister Julie, a wife and mother undone by suspicions of her husband's infidelity; her aunt Selma, "the world's angriest old woman"; and her grandmother June, a damn good soldier who's willing to bet a hundred kroner that Karin will be the best damn soldier of them all."--BOOK JACKET.

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