The Morning Star: A Novel

"It’s often said if five people see the same thing happen, they’ll tell you about it in five different ways. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s new novel The Morning Star takes this truism to an extreme: When a supernatural, massive star appears in the sky over Southern Norway one day, it causes all kinds of weirdness, which each of the novel’s many narrators recount differently. They relate the event to the drama and difficulties they’re facing in their lives, whether that’s staring down a loveless marriage or grappling with the existential drama of finding one’s place in the world. (You know, the easy stuff.) Equal parts realistic, fantastical and surreal, The Morning Star will leave you with more questions than answers – and perhaps a greater sense of observation toward what’s in the sky above."