A review by ekarcha
The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell

3.0

3.5 stars. Honestly, I felt the author was too polite and accepting of some of the Danes being rude and snobbish to her as an immigrant. Maybe it’s because I’m an American, but if someone stopped me while riding my bike out in the middle of a sunny day to yell at me about having a specific kid of headlight installed on my bike, I’d just tell them to go eat a bowl of dicks.

I did appreciate the epilogue update for the 2020 edition, which addressed the deep-seated issues of racism and xenophobia in Danish society that I believed should’ve been brought up in the original 2014 edition.