Rainbow Shelf Reading Circle September: "Kittilä rewind / Daniela Hakulinen"

This month's reading circle selection is Daniela Hakulinen's "Kittilä rewind".

The reading circle is open to everyone and requires no registration. You are welcome to join the discussion and enjoy tea or coffee provided by the library - it doesn't matter if you haven't finished the book or arrive late. The circle follows safe space principles.

The book can be picked up from Kallio Library's customer service on the first floor from the Rainbow Shelf reading circle reserve shelf, or you can reserve it yourself: https://helmet.finna.fi/Record/helmet.2631156

The reading circle meets at Kallio Library's Detective Library (entrance from the Dome) on the second Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. The Rainbow Shelf reading circle reads LGBTQ+ literature selected by participants.

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About the book:

"Have you ever been in love?"

When 17-year-old Joonatan's mother dies suddenly, he moves from Helsinki to his father in Kittilä, a man he barely knows. A fresh start in the north awakens painful memories and questions about what really happened nearly twenty years ago, when his parents first met on a bright summer night.

With help from an online crisis therapist and Richard Linklater films from his father's shelf, Joonatan tries to uncover whether his mother's story about their life was only half true. The small town's social dynamics complicate matters, where those who hate difference like Raunot create an atmosphere of fear - while Susi, the gray-eyed leader of friends fighting back and struggling to fit in, makes Joonatan's heart beat faster.

Daniela Hakulinen (born 1984) grew up in Northern Finland and now lives in Helsinki. She is a film and television screenwriter. Together with Ilona Ahde, she wrote Tytöt tytöt tytöt, which was the first Finnish