Ingrid Winter is desperately trying to hold it all together. A neurotic Norwegian mother of three small children and an overworked literature professor with an overactive imagination, Ingrid feels like her life’s always on the brink of chaos.
Her overzealous attempt to secure her dream house has strained her marriage. She’s repeatedly reprimanded for eye rolling in faculty meetings. Petulant PTA parents want to drag her into a war over teaching children to tie their shoes. And an alarmingly persistent salesman keeps warning her of the potential dangers of home intrusion.
Clearly she needs to get away. But Russia? Forced to join an academic mission to Saint Petersburg to promote international cooperation, Ingrid finds herself at a crossroads while drinking too much cough syrup. Will this trip push her into a Siberian sinkhole of existential dread or finally give her life some balance and direction?
Laugh away all your frustration To the point about the frustratrations of every day life, yet warm and emotional, and not at least funny in a sarcastic, highly recognizable way. I haven’t read anything like it before. Hope there will be a follow up soon!
More than “marvelous adventures” — deeply emotional, often humorous, suspenseful, life-changing! THIS BOOK MADE MY DAY! In fact, it made my whole Prime First experience most worthwhile. As you could see by most of my previous reviews, I don’t lightly give four- or five-star ratings. But for me this novel deserves the highest award. I found it a TREASURE to be shared with others.
The Abnormal Atrocities of Ingrid Winter. The title is misleading in that it does not do justice to how sarcastic, offbeat and crazy this book is. The title alludes to some kind of Marvelous Misadventures that could be easily converted to Abnormal Atrocities and sum the book up perfectly.