Virago 2019. Soft cover, 175 pp. Nice, clean copy
The island has run out of oxygen. The island is swollen. The island is
rotten. The island has taken my beloved from me. The island is a
Greenlander. It's the fault of the Greenlander. In Nuuk, Greenland Fia breaks up with her long-term boyfriend and falls for Sara. Sara is in love with Ivik who holds a deep secret and is about to break promises. Ivik
struggles with gender dysphoria as their friends become addicted to
social media, listen to American pop music and get blind drunk in
downtown bars and uptown house parties. Then there is Inuk, who
also has something to hide - it will take him beyond his limits to
madness, and question what it means to be a Greenlander, while Arnaq,
the party queen, pulls the strings of manipulation, bringing a web of
relationships to a shocking crescendo. Crimson weaves through
restlessness, depression, love and queer experiences to tell the story
of Greenlanders through a unique and challenging form. The original text
was written and published in the Greenlandic language.