![]() ![]() Without money, education, or knowledge of English, he sets out on foot to cross the continent and find his brother. When the two become separated, Håkan is directed to the wrong ship, and lands on the west coast rather than on the east. In the first half of the nineteenth century, fifteen-year-old Håkan Söderström is bound for New York with his protective older brother, Linus. ![]() Håkan is so expressively drawn that his bouts of loneliness, heartache, and shame vibrate off the page.Ī Swedish immigrant, the American West, and the powers of fate unite in Hernan Diaz’s stunning novel, In the Distance. ![]()
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