{"product_id":"first-comes-summer-isbn-9780593542613","title":"First Comes Summer","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe spellbinding story of a young woman’s dangerous passion as it plays out over the course of an eerie summer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn their remote Viking settlement, Folkví and her brother, Áslakr, have always been close—unnaturally close. They’ve grown more intimate still as Folkví learns her shaman mother’s craft, as men regard her with newly devouring eyes. Then illness carries off their parents, and the nest of home is shattered. Áslakr sets off on his first expedition, abandoning Folkví to the dark of an endless winter. When he returns, he’s done the unthinkable: He’s found someone else to love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sick with grief, Folkví rages to the gods where they sit at the foot of an ancient tree, contemplating the twisted passions of humans that play out in the face of an ever-approaching end of days. Will none of them save her now? Very well, Folkví will save herself. The wedding date is set. But first comes a fateful summer. . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Deeply unsettling and brilliantly imagined, \u003ci\u003eFirst Comes Summer\u003c\/i\u003e captures the terror of losing the world you’ve always known—and the uncanny extremes to which you might go to hold on to it.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eFirst Comes Summer\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] sparse and spellbinding novel. . . . Hesselager’s deft writing throughout this mysterious story continuously unsettles in the best way possible, prompting readers to lean in even as things spiral out of control.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Poetic, enigmatic. . . . [and] remarkable. . . . It is mysterious and utterly compelling.”  —\u003cb\u003eCenter for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A magical book about love and death and the slender, enduring line that connects the two.”\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e “This lucent, poetic, mysterious novel takes us deep into the shrouded past, into an ancient world that is both utterly alien and achingly, recognizably human. \u003ci\u003eFirst Comes Summer\u003c\/i\u003e is a miniature masterpiece.”  —\u003cb\u003eDan Chaon, National Book Award finalist and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSleepwalk\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmong the Missing\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A terrifying tale about the special madness of obsessive love. Masterfully told, with an ending that will leave you speechless.” —\u003cb\u003eAlma Katsu, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fervor\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Hunger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Marvelously imagined and fiercely real, \u003ci\u003eFirst Comes Summer\u003c\/i\u003e has a tender brutality to it that feels timeless and fresh at the same time. Engrossing, primal, and very very beautiful.”—\u003cb\u003eAlexandra Kleeman, author of \u003ci\u003eSomething New Under the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eYou Too Can Have a Body Like Mine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaria Hesselager \u003c\/b\u003ehas won and been shortlisted for several Scandinavian prizes. \u003ci\u003eFirst Comes Summer\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel. She lives in Copenhagen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMartin Aitken \u003c\/b\u003ehas translated numerous novels from Danish and Norwegian. He received the 2019 PEN America Translation Prize, among many other honors.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305195852005,"sku":"NP9780593542613","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593542613.jpg?v=1767727268","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/first-comes-summer-isbn-9780593542613","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}