Set adrift when her mother sells the salon that has been a neighborhood institution for decades, Nora Rolvaag takes a camping trip, intending to do nothing more than roast marshmallows over an open fire and under a starry sky. Two chance encounters, however, will have enormous consequences, and her getaway turns out to be more of a retreat from her daily life than she ever imagined. But Nora is the do-or-die-trying daughter of Patty Jane, who now must embrace the House of Curl<U+2019>s slogan: (3z(BExpect the Unexpected." With her trademark wit and warmth, Lorna Landvik follows Nora and an ever-growing cast of characters between city and wooded retreat, Minnesota and Norway, a past that<U+2019>s secret and a future that<U+2019>s promising, but uncertain. Responding to a mysterious letter with a Norwegian postmark, Nora<U+2019>s grandmother Ione travels to her native land to tend to a dying cousin and her husband<U+2014>two people who played a painful, pivotal role in her past. Nora accompanies her and is surprised by her grandmother<U+2019>s long-ago love story<U+2014>but even more surprised by the beginning of her own.
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