Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes: Stories

Publisher Marketing: Young Arvid Jansen lives on the outskirts of Oslo. It's the early sixties; his father works in a shoe factory and his Danish mother works as a cleaner. Arvid has nightmares about crocodiles and still wets his bed at night, but slowly he begins to understand the world around him. Vivid images accompany each new event: A photo of his mother as a young woman makes him cry as he realizes how time passes, and the black car that comes to collect his father on the day Arvid's grandfather dies reminds him of the passing of his bullfinch. And then, one morning, his teacher tells his class to pray because a nuclear war is looming. Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/2014 pg. 59 (EAN 9781555977009, Paperback) Publishers Weekly 02/02/2015 (EAN 9781555977009, Paperback) Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2015 (EAN 9781555977009, Paperback) Shelf Awareness 04/10/2015 (EAN 9781555977009, Paperback) Contributor Bio:  Petterson, Per Per Petterson is the author of five previous novels, which established him as one of Norway's best fiction writers. Petterson worked as a manual laborer, spent twelve years as a bookseller, and was a translator and literary critic before becoming a full-time writer. His novel Out Stealing Horses won the 2007 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and was named one of the best books of 2007 by the New York Times Book Review and Time. Contributor Bio:  Summerer, Eric Michael Eric Michael Summerer is a voice actor and producer who has narrated numerous audiobooks, as well as countless instructional recordings and video games. He is an Audie award finalist (for Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End) and shares an AudioFile Earphones Award (for William Gibson's Burning Chrome). In addition, Eric co-hosts the popular boardgame podcast The Dice Tower.