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When We Were Vikings
by Andrew David MacDonald
Zelda loves Vikings.
Zelda is a twenty-one-year-old woman.
Zelda was born with fetal alcohol syndrome, but it does not define her.
Zelda needs a way to relate to the world that does not cause her panic attacks and thus she compares people and the everyday to Vikings and the Viking way. For example, Zelda considers her brother’s drunk date an enemy, her brother part of her tribe, and her psychiatrist “Dr. Laird [as] heroic, even though he does not fight actual battles with his fists.”
When she realizes her brother has been lying to her, something a tribe member must never do, she is determined to be a powerful Viking who saves her brother from a dangerous mistake.
Zelda learns how to become an adult in a world that may forever view her less than an adult and more importantly, an adult woman.
MacDonald’s New Adult coming-of-age story is well crafted with empathy, heart and humor. Please put this on your TBR if you enjoyed The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time or Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.
Enjoy.
Skoal! -Sara S.
Zelda is a twenty-one-year-old woman.
Zelda was born with fetal alcohol syndrome, but it does not define her.
Zelda needs a way to relate to the world that does not cause her panic attacks and thus she compares people and the everyday to Vikings and the Viking way. For example, Zelda considers her brother’s drunk date an enemy, her brother part of her tribe, and her psychiatrist “Dr. Laird [as] heroic, even though he does not fight actual battles with his fists.”
When she realizes her brother has been lying to her, something a tribe member must never do, she is determined to be a powerful Viking who saves her brother from a dangerous mistake.
Zelda learns how to become an adult in a world that may forever view her less than an adult and more importantly, an adult woman.
MacDonald’s New Adult coming-of-age story is well crafted with empathy, heart and humor. Please put this on your TBR if you enjoyed The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time or Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.
Enjoy.
Skoal! -Sara S.