A Swedish single mother and her biracial daughter confront family secrets when their lives intersect with a wealthy American socialite.
For fans of Maame, Black Candle Women, Memphis, Black Cake, Mika in Real Life, In Every Mirror She's Black, Sankofa, The Vanishing Half, Little Fires Everywhere, and The Girl Who Fell From the Sky.
"Paints a picture of scenery so beautiful that readers will almost feel the wind on their skin ... A story with a lot of heart." -Kirkus Reviews
Linn Holmgren's surprise pregnancy at nineteen shocked her insular home island of Nornö and upended her life. Adrift, she finds escape through alcohol and questionable men, leaving her mother Agnes to take primary responsibility for raising her daughter, Zoë.
Now eighteen, Zoë has never met her father. Desperate to know her true self, she secretly searches for him.
When Camilla Gunnarsson Easton, former model turned Manhattan socialite, moves into an inherited property on Nornö, Zoë and Linn are pulled into her sophisticated orbit. After Zoë forms an unlikely friendship with Camilla's son, they begin a journey of self-discovery-defying long-held expectations, exposing secrets, and shaking the bonds of trust within their families.
Interweaving Zoë and Linn's perspectives, A Norn in Bloom explores the complexity of mother-daughter relationships, the enduring search for one's identity, and how the desire to belong and connect knows no bounds.
