A Midwesterner contemplates the view of America from a remote Icelandic village: “A pleasure to read and ponder. ” —Booklist (starred review)

A Minnesotan of Icelandic ancestry, Bill Holm had travelled all over the world, gathering material for a number of rich and memorable books. Then he decided to journey to the land his family had long ago left behind for the United States, and moved into a town with one general store in a nation of a few hundred thousand people. This book recounts his time at Brimnes, his fisherman’s cottage on the shore of a creek in northern Iceland. There, he embarks on a very different life in a very different world, and from thousands of miles away, considers the fate of America—“my home, my citizenship, my burden”—in these provocative, compelling essays.

“A master storyteller. ” —Los Angeles Times

“Bill Holm’s life in [this] place of spare beauty will make readers wish they had a Brimnes where they could restore their souls. ” —Pioneer Press (St. Paul)

© 2010 Milkweed Editions (E-bog): 9781571318282

Release date

E-bog: 1. august 2010