Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland

Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland

A memoir of a familyâ€™s year living in Reykjavik that â€œcaptures the fierce beauty of the Arctic landscapeâ€ (Booklist).
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Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to Iceland, sustained by a wild summer there when she was nineteen. In 2009, she saw an advertisement for a job at the University of Iceland and applied on a whim, despite having two young children and a comfortable life in Kent, England.
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The resulting adventure was shaped by Icelandâ€™s economic collapse, which halved the value of her salary; by the eruption of the volcano Eyjafjallajokull; and by a collection of new friends, including a poet who saw the only bombs fall on Iceland in 1943; a woman who speaks to elves; and a chef who guided Sarahâ€™s family around the intricacies of Icelandic cuisine.
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Moss explored hillsides of boiling mud and volcanic craters and learned to drive like an Icelander on the unsurfaced roads that link remote farms and fishing villages in the far north. She watched the northern lights and the comings and goings of migratory birds, and as the weeks and months went by, she and her family learned new ways to live. Names for the SeaÂ is her compelling and very funny account of living in a country poised on the edge of Europe, where modernization clashes with living folklore.
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â€œBeautifully writtenÂ .Â .Â . A stranger in a strange land, Moss grapples with new foods, customs and landscapes that are both oddly familiar and wildly alien in this absorbing memoir.â€ â€”Financial Times
Country USA
Manufacturer Counterpoint
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-05-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Counterpoint
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-05-01
Format	Kindle eBook

Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland

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