And by the Way, My Name is Leah
“An incredibly funny first novel about bad sex and… depression – how is that even possible? The story is about a young girl, Leah, who grows up in Oslo. Leah tries to find love wherever she can, on playgrounds, in grocery stores, in bars. And this is hilarious, sad and also utterly moving, because from time to time, Leah finds what she’s searching for. I read it in one sitting.”
One of three rising Norwegian writers to watch out for
-Ingvild Rishøi, author of “Brightly Shining” at Dua Lipa’s Service95 Book Club
Nominated for the 2025 Gullkroken Literary Prize
A punk on welfare met a Polish painter in a downtown bar and fucked him in her east end apartment block bedsit. That’s why Leah is alive.
Leah is the child of a one-night stand, and as if cursed, she is haunted by one-night stands. And this is a kind of story about them. Or maybe more of a rant. About relationships that are passed down and how we rarely talk about the class issue of LOVE.
And by the way, my name is Leah is a novel about terrible sex, bling-bling shoes and emergency contraception, about eating ice cream at Ikea, and about becoming the world’s best liar.
Not least, it is a novel about being a child and an adult at the same time.
And yes, about how insanely expensive love is.