The Armchair Travelers Book Group meets the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 1:00 p.m. at the Walteria Library ~ 3815 W. 242nd St. Torrance, CA 90505 ~ 310-375-8418

Miss Iceland by Audur Olafsdottir
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 1:00 p.m.

Iceland in the 1960s. Hekla always knew she wanted to be a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman. After packing her few belongings, including James Joyce's Ulysses and a Remington typewriter, Hekla heads for Reykjavík with a manuscript buried in her bags. Hekla's opportunities are equally limited: marriage and babies, or her job as a waitress, in which harassment from customers is part of the daily grind. The two friends feel completely out of place in a small and conservative world. And yet that world is changing...