We Have Never Been Middle Class – Hadas Weiss

The trouble with ordering books from Verso, though I love Verso, is that sometimes you get a book that looks really great but turns out to be someone’s dissertation. Not that dissertations are inherently bad, but they’re inherently bad for non-academics. You know what I mean. Can you really have pages where more than half …

Childhood, Youth, Dependency – Tove Ditlevsen

Denmark’s most famous author(?), Ditlevsen chronicles her youth and marriage(s) in this Copenhagen Trilogy: three books now together in one book, still under 400 pages. Born in 1917, she writes of the poor, working-class neighborhood she grew up in, the difficulties of life in wartime, and her horrible, horrible mother. Good grief her mother is …