Chitambo weaves the episodic memories of protagonist Vega in early 20th-century Helsinki, blending first-person recollections with her adult reflections that mix wry humor and poignant pain.
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Chitambo weaves the episodic memories of protagonist Vega in early 20th-century Helsinki, blending first-person recollections with her adult reflections that mix wry humor and poignant pain.
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From birth, Vega Maria Dreary is caught in a vice of conflicting parental expectations. Her father brings her up to admire history’s heroic male adventurers, while her mother channels her towards housework and conformity. But when puberty comes, paternal half-promises evaporate and Vega has to fight her own way out of the domestic cage. In a time of revolution and civil war in early twentieth-century Finland, she finds it hard to identify her own calling, alighting first on the cause of feminism...
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