Coconats • read

(Note: This was part of a reading challenge). A story of looking into the past of the childhood trauma of the painful process of escaping your country, grief over the life you had before, and the uncertainty of the now and later. It took a bit to get into it, as the Norwegian was more advanced than I am used to and realising that the writing is akin to that of a train of thought with a sprinkle of an active imagination from our protagonist and narrator. But, it also had repitition of certain details and motifs, clarifying them or exploring a different side to them. It can be a bit tired sometimes when it does so, but I recognise that aspect of going into such rabbit holes as someone who similarly ruminates a lot. Overall, it is a excellently written book with its traversing back and forth through memory - both the well-remembered to those that are nearly lost to time. There were also little tid-bits about how the role one has as a girl and eventually to a woman. The protagonist describing herself not really feeling like not actually feeling a grown-up woman and therefore still calling herself a girl was relatable.