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![]() ![]() ![]() The voyage makes sense: Following the breakup of her marriage, the narrator longs for a tropical escape, particularly as winter settles in. She also believes in psychics, and when she sends her friend to a reading, the narrator receives a strange fortune involving dead animals, a voyage, and three men. Six months pregnant with twins, she is already the single mother of a 4-year-old boy. Her friend Auður is everything the narrator is not. I wasn’t made to be a mother, to bring up new humans, I haven’t the faintest clue about children, nor the skills required to rear them.” What she doesn’t know is that her best friend is about to challenge not only this self-assessment but also her orderly life. “It was bound to reach this point, the baby issue. Even before he reveals that he is soon to have a baby with his new lover, the narrator knows what to expect. ![]() Her husband’s grievances, however, focus on a particular lack. ![]()
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