Ida leaves home with nothing but her mother's old, battered hard-shell suitcase, a few favorite clothes, and her MacBook. It's likely a final goodbye to the small town where she's spent her entire life. Ida is terrible at saying goodbye; she didn't even make it to her mother's funeral two months ago. At the train station, she chooses the train that goes the furthest away—she definitely doesn't want to go to her sister Tilda's in Hamburg—and ends up on Rügen. Without a plan, just a huge lump of anger, grief, and guilt inside her, she wanders around the Baltic Sea island. She eventually meets Knut, the local pub owner, and his wife Marianne, who promptly take Ida in. The three of them eat bread rolls for breakfast every morning. Ida then spends the day with Marianne, walking together in the woods or playing Skip-Bo. In the evenings, Ida works with Knut at the "Robbe" pub. And she meets Leif, who is similarly disabled. Suddenly, everything in Ida's life becomes a little easier, more bearable. Until her world is turned upside down again shortly afterward. Following her acclaimed debut novel "22 Lanes," Caroline Wahl now tells, in her unmistakable voice, how Ida copes with life. A stirring, intense, and yet profoundly comforting novel about daughters, sisters, and mothers, about perceived guilt and forgiveness—for oneself and others. New product