This is a difficult book to summarize, and in many ways an even harder one to read. Monika Fagerholm is a Finnish author writing in Swedish, and the book definitely had the disorienting feel of a translation. This was not a smooth, consistent reading experience for me.
The book starts out in 1969 in Coney Island where we are introduced to a young girl named Eddie de Wire. She goes to visit some relative somewhere on the coast near Helsinki. We know that Eddie has disappeared from there, and presumed drowned. Her death has become a mystery and almost mythologized by those who live nearby.
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