E-raamat: On the Other Side Is March

A poignant and darkly witty portrait of aging, memory, and multigenerational caretaking from the first female Faroese writer to ever appear in English.Im a woman in my early sixties. Somewhere between late and never. No longer the career woman, mother, housewife, and lover doing it all Now Im wife, mother, grandmother and my mothers mother. But I still have to satisfy all the demands placed on me.So begins Slrn Michelsens tender and darkly witty exploration of what she considers to be the strange, remaining leg of lifes journey. Her kids are grown and out of the house and shes faced with a time that, for years, she always seemed to be looking towarda time when she wasnt needed by somebody or something. But now, with her mothers declining health, she finds herself revisiting childhood scenes, family hymns, and folk songsrevealing a lifetime of love, duty, awe, and regret. She tends to her mother amid the stark rhythms of Faroese life, waiting for a new nursing home that never arrives, and confronts the reality of being part of the army of women who inherit care. In her grief and private goodbye to her mother, however, is also a gorgeous meditation about life, as translator Marita Thomsen says in her afterword, in its ragged mundane glory.A lyrical portrait of caretaking and the invisible labor of motherhood, On the Other Side Is March is a tribute to caretakers across generational lines, as well as the rich oral traditions of singing and storytelling that kept the Faroese language alive centuries before its standard written form.This is the first work of Michelsensa best-selling author of novels, short stories, poetry, and childrens literatureto be published in English.