Arriving at Something Real is a collection of psycho-social portraits of humans on the edge of society, of the ‘’real’’ and of language. The well-known feels strange and fake, while the unspeakable and the metaphysical feels close. At the same time many of the short stories are set in specific, physical places: In Skien, in a house in Hokksund, in a strip club in Trondheim or on a pedestrian crossing in Majorstuen in Oslo.