Family.
They’re always meddling in your love life
Even after they’re dead.
Brooklynite-and genealogist-Ingrid Ekstrom accepts a surprise request from her typically estranged family: to become the live-in caretaker of their shared historic house in the sleepy Jersey Shore town of Aegir Haven. A fun-loving cousin is quick to introduce Ingrid to the local handyman and bluegrass musician. As he fixes up the place, Ingrid digs into the house’s past and learns about the family she barely knows.
And then Mormor-her long-dead grandmother-shows up, acting as though not being in the spirit realm is perfectly normal.
Ingrid’s always yearned for stronger family connections, and it’s nice having Mormor around.
Mormor tries to set her up with a young real estate attorney who’s closer to her more thunderous, god-like personal standards than the musician with keen senses Ingrid is falling for. As lore and
legends mingle with real life, she’s torn. Mormor’s fantastical family sagas can’t actually be true, right?
Beck Erixson writes about the beautifully awkward world of navigating the journey to true happiness through friendships, love, and family—be it blood, found, or chosen. Her stories enhance the importance of positive interconnection, even when we feel lonely. She lives on the
Jersey Shore, and can often be found either writing by the river, or in it in some way. Her short stories have appeared in Many Nice Donkeys, and Full Mood Mag.
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My thoughts: this is a bit of a strange mix of genres, from a sort of ghost story, with the dead relatives popping in, romance and family history.
Ingrid is staying in her late grandmother’s house in a rather unusual town and her Mormor (Swedish for grandmother) pops up, apparently the Norse gods (possibly Loki) allow the women of their family to come back to see their descendants.
There’s two very different brothers that Ingrid can’t choose between, a hurricane rolling in and cousins to re-bond with. All she wanted was to hang out with her family and do some genealogy research. Guess sometimes the universe (or the gods) has other plans.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own
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