* Long-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014 * I can t remember the last time I was so enchanted by a novel like I am by Butterflies in November.
Zany, surprising, full of twists and turns, it left me breathless.
I just love this book.
Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Circle and The Obituary Writer After a day of being dumpedtwiceand accidentally killing a goose, a young woman yearns for a tropical vacation far from the chaos of her life.
Instead, her plans are wrecked by her best friend s four-year-old deaf-mute son, thrust into her reluctant care.
But when the boy chooses the winning numbers for a lottery ticket, the two of them set off on a road trip across Iceland with a glove compartment stuffed full of their jackpot earnings.
Along the way, they encounter black sand beaches, cucumber farms, lava fields, flocks of sheep, an Estonian choir, a falconer, a hitchhiker, and both of her exes desperate for another chance.
What begins as a spontaneous adventure will unexpectedly and profoundly change the way she views her past and charts her future.
Butterflies in November is a blackly comic, charming, and uplifting tale of friends and lovers, motherhood, and self-discovery.
Grove Press, Black Cat Butterflies in november, paperback/auour ava olafsdottir
