what an interesting read! All the characters were so tantalizing to read about. This is a quick beautifully written story, and I highly recommend it if you have a few hours to be captured by a really great book! Thank you to Netgalley and Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publishers for the perusal...

I knew that this book was general fiction but you needed a playbook to keep all the people straight, Sigrid, Trine, Wanda, Elida, Virgil, Robert, Kåre, Gōran.  Changing characters after two of three pages.  It was crazy to follow for the first few chapters.  Bringing George W. Bush into it, to tell Kåre's golf story, and then Dante and Viggo are also brought into the story, to tell Elida's story of snow and ice.  There's no real action in the story.  I believe this story was completely noir in it's telling.

A playful, lighthearted novel that deals with interconnected people and their relationships , plus some Divine Comedy references. Unusual and lovely.