The Seagulls Laughter

Postwar provincial Iceland around 1950 Freyja whod been a plump teen returns from America a widow with a 20inch waist seven suitcases of dresses and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her She moves in with an aunt and socialist uncle finding a new husband is high on her agenda and shes mistrusted by Agga a preteen whos our eyes and ears The social order and Freyja are more complicated than they seem at first and so may be her prospects Class divisions families ties pride the onset of puberty and the power of Eros sliver the ice