From your internationally best-selling author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared, a spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki, in regards to a young girl having a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s death.

When Anita Naakka jumps before an oncoming train, her little girl, Norma, is remaining alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural locks, sensitive towards the slightest adjustments in her mood–and the moods of those around her– approximately Norma: A novel moving of its accord, corkscrewing when risk is near. Therefore it is her hair that notifications her, while she talks with a unusual guy at her mother’s funeral, that her mother may not took her own lifestyle. Setting out to reconstruct Anita’s last months–sifting through puzzling cell phone information, bank statements, video files–Norma begins to understand that her mom knew more about her hair’s power than she let on: a sinister truth beyond Norma’s imagining. As Sofi Oksanen network marketing leads us ever more deeply into Norma’s globe, weaving together past and present, she provides us a dark family drama that is a searing family portrait of both the exploitation of women’s body and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty.