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A Norwegian Christmas in Sandnes
Hardcover
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $28.99
ISBN13: 9788269441932
Publisher: Wise Buy Royalty
Published: Jan 8 2026
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
After missing her father's death by seventeen minutes, Astrid Johansen spends a year avoiding grief in Oslo-building a career, performing independence, and convincing herself that distance is the same as healing.
Now it's Christmas, and her mother's color-coded schedule for surviving the holidays without Magnus demands Astrid's return to Sandnes. Twelve days. That's all she's committed to.
But Sandnes has changed. Her brother is about to become a father. Her mother survives through scheduled crying times and relentless organization. And the family traditions Astrid once escaped now feel fragile, precious, and impossible to ignore.
As Christmas stretches into January and beyond, Astrid faces a choice she's spent five years avoiding: return to the life she built in Oslo, or admit that independence was really just another form of running.
A Norwegian Christmas in Sandnes is a quietly powerful novel about grief that doesn't end, families that endure, and the courage it takes to come home-not because you have to, but because you choose to.
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