It is 1904 and the partially deaf Asta Hedstrom is engaged to Nils, but she does not want to marry him: she would rather spend her time with her best friend Gunnar Fuglestad and his secret boyfriend, Erlend, who belongs to the wealthiest family on their Norwegian island; so when Nils gravely injures Gunnar, she shuns her marriage and moves in with Gunnar and Erlend in a secluded cabin above town--and the three misfits set out to win the annual Christmas sleigh race, and prove to that they belong together, in spite of the villages prejudices.
year: 2021
call number/section: 1000
subjects: people with disabilities, juvenile fiction, hearing impaired, gays, outcasts, horse sports, sleighing, fiction, norway, history, 19th century, juvenile fiction, fiction, historical fiction