Searching for Nora
After the Doll’s House
Silver Medal, Best Regional Fiction Midwest
2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards
Finalist, Regional Fiction Midwest
14th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards
At the end of Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House, Nora Helmer walks away from her family and comfortable life. She’s alone, with little money and few legal rights. Guided by instinct and sustained by her will, Nora embarks on a journey that impoverishes and radicalizes her, then strands her on the Minnesota prairie. She aches for family and acceptance, but struggles to be honest in a hostile world. Meanwhile, young Solvi escapes her family’s bourgeois conformity to unlock the mysteries of her grandfather’s hidden shame and the fate of a lost feminist heroine. Read more…