The acclaimed Norwegian author explores the impact of childhood trauma in this portrait of a life lived in fear Stay With Me is a brief novel, but the whole is overshadowed by fear. The narrator, a Norwegian novelist living in Milan, recalls her childhood in the book’s opening pages, the constant... read full story
"The world was hard. Wrong was wrong. When it could have been right. Afraid was a state of being. I don't know when it started. All I know is that I was afraid, afraid was a skin beneath my skin that couldn't be shed."