The girl was small for nine, with hair the colour of dry straw and eyes that seemed to take in everything while giving nothing back. Her name was Elin, and on the first Sunday of June, she simply did not get dressed for church.
Her mother, Birgitta, stood in the doorway of the bedroom, the starched collar of her good dress cutting into her neck. The house smelled of coffee and the ironed linen that had been laid out since Friday.
"Elin. The car leaves in twenty minutes."
The girl sat on the edge of her bed, still in her nightgown. She was reading a book, something about horses or maybe it was about girls who ran away. It was hard to tell from the doorway.
"I'm not going."
Kristina Claesson, a retired health worker from a sleepy South Swedish town, who dedicates her newfound freedom to chronicling the people and the utterly absurd events that unfold in her otherwise idyllic community in …English of all choices!
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