“I’d realized that I was the only one who could survive this. I wasn’t some fallen little doll. I’d always been down here at rock bottom.”
‘A huge, touching book, one that made me long for a happy end like never before.’– Olga Grjasnowa
In his debut novel, Stephan Lohse writes about the worst that could happen to a family, the death of a child, full of empathy. But first and foremost, he writes about life and what it demands of those who remain: of pain and forlornness, but also of the un-quenchable yearning for overcoming the grief, for the joy of ordinariness.