Read Around North America Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in North America.
Best books from North America (2029)
2021.
The Lost Landscape : A Writer's Coming of Age by Joyce Carol Oates EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Written with the raw honesty and poignant insight that were the hallmarks of her acclaimed bestseller A Widow’s Story, an affecting and observant memoir of growing up from one of our finest and most beloved literary masters. The Lost Landscape is Joyce Carol Oates’ vivid chronicle of her hardscrabble childhood in rural western New York State. From memories of her relatives, to those of a charming bond with a special red hen on her family farm; from her first friendships to her earliest experiences with death, The Lost Landscape is a powerful evocation of the romance of childhood, and its indel... continue
2022.
Crimson by Niviaq Korneliussen EN
Country: North America / 
Greenland
Greenland
Description:
'Effortlessly cool, funny yet sad, breezy but thoughtful - this is an edgy and unputdownable work of modern literature' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti 'Crimson is written with immense courage - there's no faking the feeling of honesty on each page. It is a brave novel reminiscent of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting' Laline Paull, author of The Bees 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 an... continue
2023.
La vallée des fleurs by Niviaq Korneliussen FR
Country: North America / Greenland
Greenland
Description:
Elle vit à Nuuk, la capitale du Groenland. Elle est inuite, jeune, moderne et pleine d'humour. Elle est amoureuse de sa copine. Elle a été acceptée à l'Université d'Aarhus au Danemark et va enfin sortir du nid familial. Mais l'arrivée sur le continent réveille en elle une souffrance muette, une fêlure qui tue lentement le goût de vivre. Un événement tragique dans sa belle-famille la rappelle opportunément dans l'est du Groenland, au pied de la Vallée des Fleurs où, contre toute attente, la beauté des montagnes déclenche chez elle le début d'une rupture radicale. Elle, qui enfant avait sauté d'... continue
2024.
Last Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen EN
Country: North America / Greenland
Greenland
Description:
Five friends attempt to find themselves in the nightlife of Greenland’s capital city in this “audacious and honest, sorrowful and triumphant” debut novel (NPR). In a collection of blurry nights and bleary mornings after, Greenlandic author Niviaq Korneliussen weaves together the coming of age of five young people in the city of Nuuk. Fia has recently sworn off men only to discover that the woman she wants is unavailable. Her brother Inuk is forced to escape Greenland after being implicated in a political scandal. Arnaq struggles to cope with her past as her hard-partying life spirals out of co... continue
2025.
Blomsterdalen by Niviaq Korneliussen NO
Country: North America / Greenland
Greenland
Description:
HVAD ER MIT NAVN? JEG HAR IKKE ET NAVN, JEG ER BARE ET TAL. Hun oplevede det første selvmord, da hun var tretten. Selv vil hun begraves mellem de høje fjelde i den østgrønlandske by Tasiilaq, hvor de navnløse grave på kirkegården i Blomsterdalen er dækket med blå, røde og pink plastikblomster, der skriger i den rene sne. Hun har en kæreste, hun elsker, en omsorgsfuld familie, og hun er lige kommet ind på universitetet i Aarhus. Verden står åben, men intet føles rigtigt, og gradvist begynder verden at snævre sig ind omkring hende, og en nedtælling begynder. Blomsterdalen er en kuldslået og fand... continue
2027.
Rock, Paper, Scissors by Naja Marie Aidt EN
Country: North America / Greenland
Greenland
Description:
Rock, Paper, Scissors opens shortly after the death of Thomas and Jenny's criminal father. While trying to fix a toaster that he left behind, Thomas discovers a secret, setting into motion a series of events leading to the dissolution of his life and plunging him into a dark, shadowy underworld of violence and betrayal. A gripping story written with a poet's sensibility and attention to language, Rock, Paper, Scissors will greatly expand the readership for one of Denmark's most decorated and beloved writers.
2028.
When Death Takes Something from You, Give It Back by Naja Marie Aidt EN
Country: North America / Greenland
Greenland
Description:
In March 2015, Naja Marie Aidt's son Carl died at twenty-five years old in a tragic accident.When Death Takes Something from You, Give It Back describes the first year after that devastating phone call. It is at once a sober account of life after losing a child--showing how grief transforms one's relationship to reality, loved ones, and time--and an exploration of the language of poetry, loss, and love. Faced with the sudden emptiness of language, Aidt finds solace in the anguish of Joan Didion, Nick Cave, C.S. Lewis, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and other writers who have suffered the deade... continue
2029.
El valle de las flores by Korneliussen Niviaq ES
Country: North America / Greenland
Greenland
Description:
Vive en Nuuk, la capital de Groenlandia. Joven e inquieta, tiene una novia que la quiere, una familia que la apoya y todo el futuro por delante en Dinamarca, donde está a punto de comenzar la universidad. Allí, sin embargo, se ve muy diferente de sus compañeros de clase, se siente fuera de lugar, y mientras en casa todos creen que ha emprendido el vuelo hacia la ansiada libertad, ella se hunde en una pesadumbre que en realidad siempre ha estado ahí: una sensación de inadaptación y vértigo, de soledad. Una tragedia –el suicidio de la prima de su novia– la conducirá de regreso a la majestuosa na... continue