| Edition |
First United States edition. |
| Description |
305 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
"A novel"-- Dust jacket. |
| Summary |
"When Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the slightest changes in her mood--and the moods of those around her--moving of its own accord, corkscrewing when danger is near. And so it is her hair that alerts her, while she talks with a strange man at her mother's funeral, that her mother may not have taken her own life. Setting out to reconstruct Anita's final months--sifting through puzzling cell phone records, bank statements, video files--Norma begins to realize that her mother knew more about her hair's powers than she let on: a sinister truth beyond Norma's imagining. As Sofi Oksanen leads us ever more deeply into Norma's world, weaving together past and present, she gives us a dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of women's bodies and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Magic realism (Literature) -- Fiction.
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Beauty, Personal -- Fiction.
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Beauty, Personal. (OCoLC)fst00829396
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Magic realism (Literature) (OCoLC)fst01005504
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Mothers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst01026997
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| Genre/Form |
Paranormal fiction.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Paranormal fiction. (OCoLC)fst01921727
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| Added Author |
Witesman, Owen, translator.
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| Added Title |
Norma. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Oksanen, Sofi, 1977- author. Norma First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017 9780451493538 (DLC) 2017026782 |
| ISBN |
9780451493521 (hardback) |
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0451493524 (hardback) |
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9780451493538 (ebook) |
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