A postcard for Annie

A young woman witnesses a terrible accident with unexpected consequences, a mother sits with her unconscious son in a hospital room, a pair of sisters remember their mother s hands braiding their hair.

Jessen - winner of the Lifetime Award from the Danish Arts Foundation and the 2017 Critics' Choice Award - fills each story with bracing passages that splash with the living world, only to become concentrated in the unfixed, vacillating matter of a human psyche caught between silence and speech, paralysis and action.