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"In honest, crackling investigations of the psychiatric system and the young people trying to find their way, Gr�b�l's soaring debut offers a critique of institutionalization and an urgent recalibrating of the language and conceptions of care. ""I'm not inarticulate, but I leave language to the room around me,"" says Fine Gr�b�l's nameless narrator as she dreams of furniture flickering to life in the room she occupies at a temporary psychiatric care unit for young adults. Our narrator is obsessed with the way items rise up out of their thingness, assuming personalities and private motives. She also cannot sleep and practices her daily routines with the urgency of survival--peeling a carrot, drinking prune juice--all an acutely calibrated exploration into having a home. Structured as a series of intimate vignettes like those of Olga Ravn, What Kingdom thrums with the swirling voices of this shared home. Hector blares Michael Jackson from the recreation room and recalls a past in Peru when his psychoses were treated with exorcism. The town would shake the devil out of his small, teenage body before he was relocated to Denmark. Or Marie, who has lived in the temporary unit since she was eighteen, has no idea that her mother lives just four floors below in a permanent care unit."

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"What Kingdom is Danish writer Fine Grabol's (b. 1992) debut novel. She has previously published a collection of poetry, Knoglemarv lavendel (Bone-marrow Lavender, 2018), together with the poetry collective BMS-consisting of Dorte Limkilde, Mette Kierstein, Ronja Johansen, and Grabol. What Kingdom is inspired by the author's own experiences with psychiatric care and has been called ""such a strong debut, so sure-footed, clear, vibrating, like chiffon or a cigarette"" (Olga Ravn). Carlotta Brentan is a New York-based actor, producer, and award-winning audiobook narrator. In theater, Carlotta focuses on original play development, and has produced, directed, and performed in acclaimed world premieres at Cherry Lane, LaMaMa, and internationally. Behind the mic, Carlotta has voiced hundreds of national commercials, corporate videos, e-learning, dubbing, and audiobooks in multiple languages and accents. A multiple AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator specializing in YA with an edge, thrillers, and literary fiction, Carlotta has voiced New York Times and Audible bestselling audiobooks, as well as Reese Witherspoon Book Club picks by award-winning authors. Carlotta is a classically trained actor, graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and a bilingual speaker of English and Italian. In all her work-which also includes on-camera commercials and films-Carlotta aims to tell the stories of complex, introspective, enterprising characters on journeys of self-discovery. Martin Aitken is the acclaimed translator of numerous novels from Danish and Norwegian, including works by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Peter H�, eg, Jussi Adler-Olsen, and Pia Juul. His translation of �~rstavik's Ti Amo was named a Financial Times Best Book of the Year."

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