Linda Sturesson Stabel
Linda Sturesson Stabel, with roots in Poland, was born and raised on the west coast of Sweden but now lives in the capital where she works as a research specialist at Karolinska Institutet. “Discounting the positive” is her debut work of fiction.
Discounting the positive
In post-war Warsaw, a two-year-old girl is brought to an orphanage. After a few years, she is forced back to her broken family, and her life turns into a nightmare. Growing up with trauma, she leaves Poland and continues her life in Sweden.
Decades later, in Stockholm, Alexandra is reluctantly diagnosed as bipolar. To find peers, she joins a writing course organized by a patient association were participants with psychiatric diagnoses manage to turn every writing session into a therapy session where one participant appears crazier than the other.
Between the lines of this raw feel-bad novel lies dark humor and harshness.
Original title: Diskvalificering av det positiva
Publication: Mormor Förlag April 2019
Pages: 252
Rights sold: All rights available
Reading material: Sample translation
Contact: Anna-Maria Ekblad
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