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Dear Suns (2022)

Dear Suns (2022)

Asa Marin
2022
272 pages
Fiction
Travel Fiction

When Sunna and Arsol receive a letter from their mother who claims to be at death’s door they have opposite reactions: Arsol wants to rush to her side but Sunna is full of misgivings. The mother and daughters share a fraught relationship with a past marked by disappointment and pain. In the end the sisters are joined by Barbara, an old friend of their mother, as they hurry off to Andalucia. What happens upon their arrival takes everyone by surprise, but gradually they come to realize that new friends are much more important than old sins. Asa Marin’s previous novels include

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“The book is structured in an entertaining way with the reader eager to get to each new letter in this scavenger hunt… Asa Marin brings a high degree of food writing to the page, and, in the spirit of Jenny Colgan and Nora Ephron, you’re rewarded with recipes at the end… Characters are well developed, and the main three characters are very compelling. … the perfect read to take on vacation…”

SAEUNN GISLADOTTIR, LESTRARKLEFINN