AuthorKira Josefsson

Au Pair

In Fiction

22 Min read

A novel excerpt by Cecilia Hansson

From Natur och Kultur, 2019, translated from the Swedish by Kira Josefsson

A BEGINNING OF SORTS

When I go to Erstagatan to be unfaithful it is spring, and I am 31 years old.
For four years I’ve been trapped...

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My Body Has Failed Me and Now I’m About to Die

In Essay

11 Min read

By Cecilia Hansson

translated from Swedish by Kira Josefsson

It starts like a great spring exhaustion. But after a couple of days the spaces between my ribs begin to tingle, and my head hurts like I have a migraine.

I think about the Easter eggs, the cake that needs to be baked, and the family excursions we...