Freya Morris grows up in a typical American suburb — but every summer,she enters another realm entirely when she visits her relatives inGimli, a tiny village in Canada settled by Icelandic immigrants. Hereshe falls under the spell of her troubled but charming aunt Birdie, whothrills her with stories of exotic Norse goddesses, moody Viking bards,and the life of her late grandfather, the most famous poet of “NewIceland.”
The Tricking of Freya
Christina Sunley reads a passage from The Tricking of Freya, the story of a young woman obsessed with uncovering a family secret that draws her into the strange and magical history, language and landscape of Iceland.
