Literature and Fiction · Hardback

Virvel Street

Norwegian title: Virvelgate

Rannveig Fern Leite Molven

A mother is left behind in pieces. She has lost her four-year-old daughter, who stopped breathing one night, without warning. The loss happened many years ago now, and the woman has since had another daughter. Virvel Street is about grief, and about what it means for a child to grow up around such profound loss. How should parents manage their own grief, while at the same time show their new child that they love them?

Virvel Street stirs up powerful feelings in the reader. Blunt and brutal in her depictions of grief and loss, Molven writes about how grief can change a person over time, and the ripple effect it has on the people around them.