Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
Sept 2017
Sept 2017
Swedish author Katarina Bivald had to ignore the adage "write what you know" for her novel "The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend." It's the story of a shy Swedish woman who changes a small Iowa town by opening a bookshop.
Bivald wrote what became an international hit without visiting the Midwest. Now she's here to see the real thing.
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Bivald said when she started writing "The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend," she didn't intend for it to be published. She called it her practice novel. She was 25 and working in a bookstore in Sweden at the time.
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"And I chose Iowa because I knew absolutely nothing about the state," she said. "Well, that's not true. I knew two things: I knew that they had lots of corn, and that they once had a cat named Dewey Readmore Books. And what more do you need to know about a state?"
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