The shell of the lobster
de Caroline Albertine Minor
The three Gabel brothers lead very different lives: Ea has moved to San Francisco, where she lives with Hector and their daughter, Coco; Sidsel is a single mother of a little girl, Laura, and works as a curator at a museum in Copenhagen; and Niels, the youngest of the three brothers, lives precariously, putting up posters around the city and without fixed accommodation.
Over the years, their differences have grown, distancing them until they become complete strangers, but for five days in April they must bond again to face an unresolved story from the past that concerns them all. Sidsel, in a kind of defiance of his younger brother’s self-imposed loneliness, goes to Niels for help, and Ea, from San Francisco, gives signs of life again. Hoping to get in touch with her deceased mother, Ea has visited the psychic Bee Wallens. Lately, a question has haunted and tormented her.
The Lobster Shell is a story about family myth, an exploration of what it means to be a part of the whole. A novel about broken ties and ghosts from the past that haunt us, preventing us from finding our way and place in life.
Caroline Albertine Minor (Copenhagen, 1988) is one of the most promising writers in Nordic literature today. She graduated from Forfatterskolen – Denmark’s most prestigious creative writing programme – in 2012 and made her debut a year later with Pura Vida. She was subsequently nominated for the prestigious Nordic Council Literature Prize for her short story collection Velsignelser (2017). Her work has won awards such as the PO Enquist 2018, as well as the Danish Writers’ Association Award, the Michael Strunge Award 2017 and the Danish Arts Foundation Special Award. The Danish Arts Council awarded her a three-year work grant and she is pursuing a master’s degree in Anthropology. She currently lives in Copenhagen with her husband and son.
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