This Should Be Written in the Present Tense

by Helle Helle

Genres: Coming of Age; Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Dorte is twenty and adrift, pretending to study literature at Copenhagen University. In reality she is riding the trains and clocking up random encounters in her new home by the railway tracks. She remembers her ex, Per – the first boyfriend she tells us about, and the first she leaves – as she enters a new world of transient relationships, random sexual experiences and awkward attempts to write.

Release date: January 1, 2016

Publisher: Soft Skull

Print pages: 208