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““Did you get it in writing?” This was Amma: witty, a little mischievous, always seated at the kids’ table.”
“In Iceland, I find Amma.”
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“daughters family fiction writing Freyja grandmothers Iceland Margrét Ann Thors motherhood mothers novel writing Spiegel and Grau Margrét Ann Thors Margrét Ann Thors is an Icelandic-American writer based in Reykjavík, Iceland.”
“Amma’s letters preserve her worries about money and my father; my daughter’s toilet paper roll books preserve her six-year-old syntax.”
“She wants me to confirm that her father will die before I do because he is older (by four months, I should add).”
“Freyja is her debut novel.”
“These marks on paper are something.”
““So, Father,” she famously said in her thick Icelandic accent, “vhat do you think, is He really up there?” Many years later, shortly after learning I was pregnant, I felt an urge to go to church.”
“Thor is going to teach me to drive, she writes in one letter.”
“I began writing Freyja to honor my amma.”
“In recent years, I’ve inherited stacks of old letters Amma wrote from the U.S.”
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