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THE STRONGEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD
As Icelandic author Helgadóttir’s novel opens, the “strongest woman in the world” is attempting an impossible feat: breaking out of a prison cell while shackled. The novel then moves sharply back in time to show that woman, Gunnhildur, as a baby breaking free of her mother’s body. When she’s brought home to a place of emotional extremes, her older brother, Eiður, attempts to soothe her. She grabs his fingers with an unfathomable strength, and the siblings immediately “became powerless comrades i
- As Icelandic author Helgadóttir’s novel opens, the “strongest woman in the world” is attempting an impossible feat: breaking out of a prison cell while shackled. The novel then moves sharply back in time to show that woman, Gunnhildur, as a baby breaking free of her mother’s b...
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- As Icelandic author Helgadóttir’s novel opens, the “strongest woman in the world” is attempting an impossible feat: breaking out of a prison cell while shackled. The novel then moves sharply back in time to show that woman, Gunnhildur, as a baby breaking free of her mother’s body. When she’s brought home to a place of emotional extremes, her older brother, Eiður, attempts to soothe her. She grabs his fingers with an unfathomable strength, and the siblings immediately “became powerless comrades i.
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