Norma, Sofi Oksanen ; [translated from the Finnish by Owen F. Witesman]
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Norma, Sofi Oksanen ; [translated from the Finnish by Owen F. Witesman]
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eng
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fiction
Main title
Norma
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966392957
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Sofi Oksanen ; [translated from the Finnish by Owen F. Witesman]
Summary
"When Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the slightest changes in her mood--and the moods of those around her--moving of its own accord, corkscrewing when danger is near. And so it is her hair that alerts her, while she talks with a strange man at her mother's funeral, that her mother may not have taken her own life. Setting out to reconstruct Anita's final months--sifting through puzzling cell phone records, bank statements, video files--Norma begins to realize that her mother knew more about her hair's powers than she let on: a sinister truth beyond Norma's imagining. As Sofi Oksanen leads us ever more deeply into Norma's world, weaving together past and present, she gives us a dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of women's bodies and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty"--, Provided by publisher
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- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- Magic realist fiction
- Magic realism (Literature)
- Mothers and daughters
- Magic realism (Literature) -- Fiction
- Beauty, Personal
- Fiction
- FICTION / Contemporary Women
- Beauty, Personal -- Fiction
- Paranormal fiction
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
- FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary
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- Classification4
- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Genre3
- Subject12
- Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
- Magic realist fiction
- Magic realism (Literature)
- Mothers and daughters
- Magic realism (Literature) -- Fiction
- Beauty, Personal
- Fiction
- FICTION / Contemporary Women
- Beauty, Personal -- Fiction
- Paranormal fiction
- FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
- FICTION / Fantasy / Contemporary
- Content1
- Author1
- Is Part Of1
- Other version1
- Translator1
- Mapped to1