Animal Life
Olafsdottir, Audur Ava (Author) / FitzGibbon, Brian (Translator)
In the days leading up to Christmas, Domhildur delivers her 1, 922nd baby. Beginnings and endings are her family trade, she comes from a long line of midwives on her mother's side and a long line of undertakers on her father's. She even lives in the apartment that she inherited from her grandaunt, a midwife with a unique reputation for her unconventional methods. As a terrible storm races towards Reykjavik, Domhildur discovers decades worth of...