The Unpredictability of Being Human

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This is a story for the outsider in every one ofus. If 14-year-old Malin was God for a day,she wouldn't change much. Dad would still yell; her brother Sigve would stillget in trouble, and Mom would still think wine is good for the heart. She'dstill be friends with Hanna, even if they met shoplifting. Because stuff'sokay, mostly. And if He could fix the world, wouldn't God have done it already? Darkly comic, strikingand compassionate, this is a portrait of small-town Norway, a community thatsings with pain, humour, and a whole lot of nothingness, told through the eyesof a unique teenage girl.