Riverkeeper reviewed Jag for ner till bror by Karin Smirnoff
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5 stars
JanaKippo or trauma personified. This book is probably best read in Swedish but it takes some time to understand the way it is written but once you do it will have you hooked .
It's told by a woman called Jana who recall growing up with her brother on a farm in a village in the north of Sweden. Her father was a worker/farmer who comes home for the weekend and her mother is a housewife who spends time writing Bible verses on embroidery and hiding bruises behind shawls and sunglasses.
Jana's life as much as her brother (who is named Brother, Bror in Swedish) are abused by their father is horrific ways until it culminated in an event that changed them forever.
In the present, Jana comes back to the village after another failed relationship, her brother is ready to drink himself to death, a woman named Maria was …
It's told by a woman called Jana who recall growing up with her brother on a farm in a village in the north of Sweden. Her father was a worker/farmer who comes home for the weekend and her mother is a housewife who spends time writing Bible verses on embroidery and hiding bruises behind shawls and sunglasses.
Jana's life as much as her brother (who is named Brother, Bror in Swedish) are abused by their father is horrific ways until it culminated in an event that changed them forever.
In the present, Jana comes back to the village after another failed relationship, her brother is ready to drink himself to death, a woman named Maria was found dead and Jana's past starts haunting her already from page 1.
Throughou the story it switches between the past and present and tells a story that will at times make you physically sick but you will think about it for a long time.
