Caroline Wahl
Ida has nothing with her except her mother's old, scratched hard-shell suitcase, a few favorite clothes, and her MacBook when she leaves her home. It is likely a farewell forever to the small town where she has spent her entire life so far. Ida is really bad at saying goodbye; she didn't even manage to attend her mother's funeral two months ago. At the train station, she picks the train that goes the farthest away – she absolutely does not want to go to her sister Tilda's in Hamburg – and ends up on Rügen. Without a plan, just with a big lump of anger, grief, and guilt in her stomach, she wanders across the Baltic Sea island. And she eventually meets Knut, the local pub owner, and his wife Marianne, who promptly take Ida in. The three of them have breakfast together every morning with frozen rolls, and Ida spends the day with Marianne, walking through the woods or playing Skip-Bo; in the evening, Ida works with Knut at the "Robbe." And she gets to know Leif, who is just as scarred as she is. Suddenly, everything is a little lighter, more bearable in Ida's life. Until her world is again thrown off balance shortly thereafter.
After her celebrated debut "22 Bahnen," Caroline Wahl now tells, in her distinctive sound, how Ida takes on life. A stirring, intense, and immensely comforting novel about daughters, sisters, and mothers, about supposed guilt and forgiveness – of oneself and others.
Doors open: 6:30 PM
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