Echo: Scandinavian Stories About Girls

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Summary: Fascinating, insightful, entertaining, informative reading.
Review: Echo: Scandinavian Stories About Girls is a collection of short stories, excerpts from novels and autobiographies the explore friendship and family, adventure, struggle and creativity from the perspective of girlhood in Scandinavia. Echo is a rich blending of classic and contemporary literature written for and about girls who dare to ski off high jumps, build river dams, scheme to get rich by selling imaginary lottery tickets, long for their parents to stop quarreling, for mothers to act normal, for fathers to come home; who ponder what to name themselves, find and keep a best friend, what the future will be. Here are girls who are energetic, wild and breakers of rules, thoughtful, astute, and delightfully funny. Echo is a unique literary anthology that is highly recommended for women's studies supplemental reading lists, and anyone wanting to enjoy fascinating, insightful, entertaining, and informative glimpses into the lives, loves, and aspirations of young Scandinavian women.