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Biggest and Smallest

Norwegian title: Størst og minst

Erlend Skjetne

Sissel is in tenth grade, and the time has come to decide which curriculum she wants to follow at upper secondary school. She has also been offered a summer job far from home. But this summer her sister, Åshild, will turn eighteen. Åshild has Down’s syndrome, so for her this doesn’t mean freedom and new rights; instead, their parents want her to move into shared accommodation. Sissel is unsettled: what will remain of their family without Åshild?

In Biggest and Smallest, big sister is little sister, and little sister big sister. But a sister is a sister.