Hafni Says

A marvelously inventive road-trip novel, told as one long conversation in the aftermath of a capsized marriage

Hafni says: I don’t want to be me. I want to change who I am. I don’t know how to change who I am.

Hafni has come to the end of her marriage. From a rest stop she phones the novel’s narrator—a main character from Helle Helle’s previous novel they—but it’s she who does all the talking. She’s been celebrating impending divorce with a “smørrebrød tour” of the southern Danish countrysid...