Full galley will be uploaded early June — Wish for it in the meantime!

"Alex is one of the truly great Scandinavian storytellers. He writes with compassion and curiosity about childhood, and the vulnerability of being small, in a way like no other I know. This is a novel that stays with you, you'll put it down and call your parents, or text your kids. And you'll wish that you could call yourself at some point in your life just to say: ‘You'll be okay.’” — Fredrik Backman "Why is June 17, 1986 so important?" "I don’t know. Something happened that day." Vidar is not himself. He’s been suspended from his teaching job after an incident at school. Bereft and scrounging around at home, he stumbles across the long-forgotten phone number to his family’s old summer cottage. When he dials the number, his father answers—despite having been dead for many years. Vidar has called June 17, 1986—a day from his childhood. Suddenly, a trapdoor to the past opens. Vidar makes call after call to that same day, beginning to map out his family’s every move. Meanwhile, as the day from his childhood gradually unfolds, and Vidar becomes more and more obsessed with its every revelation, the noose in the present tightens. Alex Schulman has written a breathtaking novel about a journey through time—and about what forces can shape—and which perhaps can heal—a human being.