Please Read This Leaflet Carefully
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Please Read This Leaflet Carefully by Karen Havelin
Karen Havelin's Please Read This Leaflet Carefully is a life told in reverse and a subversion of what we expect from stories of illness. Having been diagnosed with endometriosis in her twenties, we follow Laura Fjellstad in her struggle to live a normal life across New York, Paris and Oslo, fueled by her belief that to survive her chronic illness she must be completely self-reliant. Flowing backwards from 2016 to 1995, we meet Laura's younger selves: her healthier selves. Laura as a daughter, a figure skater, a lover, and a mother-finally leading a life her own teenage self would be in awe of. To be devoured intensely in one sitting, Please Read This Leaflet Carefully is a remarkable debut novel with bracing emotional insights and piercing descriptions of pain that linger in one's mind long after the last page. It is also a beguiling meditation on relationships, motherhood, sexuality, pain and the limitations of our own bodies.
Now living in Oslo, Karen Havelin is a writer and translator originally from Bergen, Norway. She attended Skrivekunst-akademiet i Hordaland, and has a Bachelor's degree from the University of Bergen and University of Paris Sorbonne, and an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781911585541 |
| ISBN 10 | 1911585541 |
| Title | Please Read This Leaflet Carefully |
| Author | Karen Havelin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cinder House |
| Year published | 2019-05-30 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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