Today I'm joining in the publication day celebrations for Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir's latest book Karitas Untitled which has been translated into English by Philip Roughton. Sadly I wasn't in a position to read for review so instead I have a paperback copy to give away.
Growing up on a farm in early twentieth-century rural Iceland, Karitas Jónsdóttir, one of six siblings, yearns for a new life. An artist, Karitas has a powerful calling and is determined to never let go of her true being, one unsuited for the conventional. But she is powerless against the fateful turns of real life and all its expectations of women. Pulled back time and again by design and by chance to the Icelandic countryside—as dutiful daughter, loving mother, and fisherman’s wife—she struggles to thrive, to be what she was meant to be.
