Edgar and Susan: Done to Death | A novella ny Sarah Hollister

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Edgar and Susan: Done to Death

A novella
Sarah Hollister

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It is lost time that concerns Edgar, not lost life. He is a man of small patience and large practicality. He’s a Swede. The two are travelling north to the Henning Mankell writing residence. In Susan’s application, she described her project as a reworking of a play, a two act that had been given a “workshop production” in New York. But that was before Henning Mankell died.

All relationships have unwritten rules that define the shared but singular experience of being one half of a couple; the constant rub and friction that manifests itself in long awkward silences or bouts of fiery discontent. Susan and Edgar carry the weight of their individual pasts, expectations, and compromises differently. They exist in uncomfortable togetherness, the confidence of their sexual harmony diminished with age, carefully avoiding the reality of physical loneliness.

Susan is a dreamer, a writer obsessed with the mystique of her Scandi writing hero, Henning Mankell; an American whose outsider status is a daily reminder that she will never really fit in, with Edgar, or in Sweden.

Edgar is a pragmatist, analytical and practical; a Swede that lives by the rules, and the unspoken rules that he curates to fit his own purpose and beliefs. His self-assurance is deep; it’s in the language he speaks, the land he lives in, in his skin.

But what happens when a pilgrimage to Mankell’s revered writing residence takes an unexpected turn, amplifying the differences between them, the silent bitterness between Edward and Susan that lingers just below the surface?


Edgar and Susan: Done to Death är en novell som utforskar hur ömtåliga och absurda mänskliga relationer kan vara samt begrepp som självständighet, frihet och mänskliga rättigheter. 

 

Sarah Hollister

Sarah Hollister

Author

Sarah Hollister är en amerikansk författare och dramatiker numera bosatt i Stockholms skärgård. Hennes pjäser Sisters’ Dance och Relative Truth har satts upp i New York. Hon är medlem i svenska Dramatikerförbundet och har vid ett flertal tillfällen fått Sveriges författarförbunds vistelsestipendium i Henning Mankells gård i Överberg. Sarah är en av grundarna till Stockholm Writers Festival.