A Blessed Child
A Blessed Child by Linn Ullmann, published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group on August 11, 2009, is a reprint edition comprising 320 pages. This novel explores the intricate dynamics of sisterhood and the lasting impact of childhood memories. Set against the backdrop of the windswept Baltic island of Hammarsö, the story follows Isak Lövenstad and his three daughters from different marriages as they navigate the complexities of family ties during their summer gatherings.
Readers will find a narrative that delves into the relationships among Erika, Laura, and Molly, particularly focusing on Erika’s intense bond with the rebellious Ragnar. As they confront the challenges of adolescence, a pivotal moment of betrayal leads to a tragic incident that forever changes their family. Twenty-five years later, the sisters return to Hammarsö to face the lingering effects of that summer, revealing the deep scars left by their past. A Blessed Child presents a poignant exploration of innocence lost and the enduring connections that shape our lives.
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A captivating story of sisterhood and of the inescapable chords of childhood memory.
“A hauntingly beautiful novel of family ties, A Blessed Child takes on what it means to be old, what it means to have loved selfishly, deeply and — equally – to no longer love.” – A.M. Homes, author of The Mistress’s Daughter
Every summer Isak Lövenstad gathers his three daughters by different wives to the windswept Baltic island of Hammarsö. Here Erika, Laura, and Molly know, if only for the season, what it is to be a family, and here, in the society of children, each undergoes the rites of growing up. Though many alliances form and dissolve, none compares to Erika’s bond with the rebellious misfit Ragnar, the intensity of which makes them inseparable. But when they reach the age of fourteen and their relationship threatens to relegate Erika to Ragnar’s outcast state, she suddenly turns away—a common enough teenage betrayal that nonetheless precipitates an incident of such senseless cruelty as to forever alter Isak’s family.
Twenty-five years later, returning to Hammarsö to see their father—now eighty, a bereaved widower, and in year-round exile there—the three women confront, finally, the specter of that awful summer, the mark of which each has since carried.
Bold and starkly beautiful, A Blessed Child is a haunting parable of innocence lost.
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