{"id":41101,"date":"2020-09-15T15:32:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T15:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/for-min-mand-forsvinder-ennen-kuin-mieheni-katoaa\/"},"modified":"2020-09-15T15:32:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T15:32:19","slug":"for-min-mand-forsvinder-ennen-kuin-mieheni-katoaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/for-min-mand-forsvinder-ennen-kuin-mieheni-katoaa\/","title":{"rendered":"F\u00f8r min mand forsvinder \/ Ennen kuin mieheni katoaa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Novel (Finnish, translated into Danish)<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Selja Ahava: F\u00f8r min mand forsvinder, 2019\/ Ennen kuin mieheni katoaa, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An auto fictional novel about getting emotionally lost when one\u2019s husband through ten years of marriage suddenly one morning declares: \u201cIn reality, I\u2019ve always wanted to be a woman.\u201d Read a very empathizing first-hand account of perplexity, confusion, and trouble understanding a gender change and changing of that reality, past, and future you thought you had. The author is in this novel just like her award-winner Pludselig falder ting fra himlen \/ Taivaalta tippuvat asiat (2018) a master at describing and documenting the awkward moment when everything stands still, and how to slowly recognize and adjusting yourself with a new situation determined by outside coincidences \u2013 about the grief of losing a beloved person who is still there. Parallel to the story of the couple\u2019s challenge to the identity change is the story of Columbus\u2019s journey across the world \u2013 finding new land.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pictures from Randers Bibliotek and Goodreads<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novel (Finnish, translated into Danish) Selja Ahava: F\u00f8r min mand forsvinder, 2019\/ Ennen kuin mieheni katoaa, 2017 An auto fictional novel about getting emotionally lost when one\u2019s husband through ten years of marriage suddenly one morning declares: \u201cIn reality, I\u2019ve always wanted to be a woman.\u201d Read a very empathizing first-hand account of perplexity, confusion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[656],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-library-recommends","no-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}