Astoria, Malena Morling

At first I wasn't crazy about this book, but on a second read I like it a lot more. It's still an all-time favorite or anything, but there is some beautiful stuff here, and we're not quite as different as I thought, Malena and I. In fact she's of Norwegian heritage or something like that, and everyone says I'm Scandanavian. So we're practically sisters there.