Half Life (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Krista Foss | knygos.lt

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A raw, absorbing and surprisingly funny novel about a woman's long-overdue reckoning with memory, truth, and the multiverse of familial love.

Elin Henriksen is a middle-aged single parent under pressure. Her formidable mother's health is declining, her fearless teenage daughter wants to leave but won't say where, and Elin's unorthodox teaching of physics has put her on a collision course with the new high-school principal.

And then there is the upcoming ceremony at the Art Museum. In ten days, her family re-unites to name a gallery after their late father, Tig Henriksen, a modernist furniture designer whose sought-after cult pieces hide a troubled narrative. With a mixture of anticipation and dread, Elin prepares for the return of her once-estranged siblings--Mette, a free-spirited singer-songwriter, and the serious, emotionally distant architect Casper--hoping they'll finally accept what they've refused to believe: her.

In the countdown to the event, as her students unravel, her daughter gets in a bar fight, her mother is hospitalized and strange packages land on her doorstep (including a yellow-eyed dog), Elin's only relief is talking to a dead physicist.

As she grapples with the paradoxes of truth and clarity, love and witness, genius and ambition, as well as a mysterious connection to her famous physicist confessor, Elin inches closer to choosing between the explosive potential of memory or living with fallout as dangerous as it is silent.

Told with dazzling insight, intelligence, and compassion, Half Life is a beautifully rendered story about family truths and the profound human need to be believed.