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On the Other Side Is March - by Sólrún Michelsen (Paperback)

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  • A poignant and darkly witty portrait of aging, memory, and multigenerational caretaking from the first female Faroese writer to ever appear in English.I'm a woman in my early sixties.
  • About the Author: Sólrún Michelsen, born in Tórshavn, is a bestselling author known for her poetry, short stories, and novels for all ages.
  • 121 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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A poignant and darkly witty portrait of aging, memory, and multigenerational caretaking from the first female Faroese writer to ever appear in English.

I'm a woman in my early sixties. Somewhere between late and never. No longer the career woman, mother, housewife, and lover doing it all... Now I'm wife, mother, grandmother and my mother's mother. But I still have to satisfy all the demands placed on me.

So begins Sólrún Michelsen's tender and darkly witty exploration of what she considers to be the strange, remaining leg of life's journey. Her kids are grown and out of the house and she's faced with a time that, for years, she always seemed to be looking toward--a time when she wasn't needed by somebody or something. But now, with her mother's declining health, she finds herself revisiting childhood scenes, family hymns, and folk songs--revealing a lifetime of love, duty, awe, and regret. She tends to her mother amid the stark rhythms of Faroese life, waiting for a new nursing home that never arrives, and confronts the reality of being part of the "army of women" who inherit care. In her grief and private goodbye to her mother, however, is also a gorgeous meditation about life, as translator Marita Thomsen says in her preface, "in its ragged mundane glory."

A lyrical portrait of caretaking and the invisible labor of motherhood, On the Other Side Is March is a tribute to caretakers across generational lines, as well as the the rich oral traditions of singing and storytelling that kept the Faroese language alive centuries before its standard written form.

This is the first work of Michelsen's--a best-selling author of novels, short stories, poetry, and children's literature--to be published in English.



About the Author



Sólrún Michelsen, born in Tórshavn, is a bestselling author known for her poetry, short stories, and novels for all ages. She won the Faroese Children's Literature Award in 2002 and the M. A. Jacobsen Culture Prize in 2008, and her novel On the Other Side Is March was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2015. Her recent works include a historical trilogy depicting the lives of women in the Faroe Islands, starting at the close of the nineteenth century.


Marita Thomsen is from the Faroes, where the wind often roars, and now lives in Keele, where it whispers. Her love of languages and stories has crystallized into English translations of Faroese authors, while her work as a conference interpreter satisfies her curiosity and wanderlust.



Dimensions (Overall): 8.0 Inches (H) x 5.25 Inches (W)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 121
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Transit Books
Format: Paperback
Author: Sólrún Michelsen
Language: English
Street Date: July 14, 2026
TCIN: 1005111690
UPC: 9798893380491
Item Number (DPCI): 247-10-5835
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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