Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland

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Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland

A memoir of a familyâ€™s year living in Reykjavik that â€œcaptures the fierce beauty of the Arctic landscapeâ€ (Booklist).
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Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to Iceland, sustained by a wild summer there when she was nineteen. In 2009, she saw an advertisement for a job at the University of Iceland and applied on a whim, despite having two young children and a comfortable life in Kent, England.
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The resulting adventure was shaped by Icelandâ€™s economic collapse, which halved the value of her salary; by the eruption of the volcano Eyjafjallajokull; and by a collection of new friends, including a poet who saw the only bombs fall on Iceland in 1943; a woman who speaks to elves; and a chef who guided Sarahâ€™s family around the intricacies of Icelandic cuisine.
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Moss explored hillsides of boiling mud and volcanic craters and learned to drive like an Icelander on the unsurfaced roads that link remote farms and fishing villages in the far north. She watched the northern lights and the comings and goings of migratory birds, and as the weeks and months went by, she and her family learned new ways to live. Names for the SeaÂ is her compelling and very funny account of living in a country poised on the edge of Europe, where modernization clashes with living folklore.
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â€œBeautifully writtenÂ .Â .Â . A stranger in a strange land, Moss grapples with new foods, customs and landscapes that are both oddly familiar and wildly alien in this absorbing memoir.â€ â€”Financial Times

Country	USA
Author	Sarah Moss
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9781619022171
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Counterpoint
Manufacturer	Counterpoint
NumberOfPages	368
PublicationDate	2013-05-01
Publisher	Counterpoint
ReleaseDate	2018-11-01
Studio	Counterpoint

Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland

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