On December 3rd, join us for a conversation on David Øybo’s novel Julebord: The Holiday Party, with the author and panelists Dr. Alexander Lasareff-Mironoff and Hana Mironoff! The panel will explore Øybo’s page-turning literary whodunnit about a holiday murder in the far north of Norway. In addition to discussing rural hospitals, surfing, and how to survive a Julebord in Scandinavia, they’ll also the medical topics explored in the book, specifically FGM and PAS, and how shortcuts in thinking can sometimes fool us.

On December 23, 2019, a body washes up on the shores of Godshus, where a fjord meets the North Sea.  Should chief investigator James Wiley Redding of the Norwegian Police suspect that any of the doctors employed at the area’s small rural hospital? Inspired in part by Julio Cortázar’s Rayuela (Hopscotch), the book’s experimental approach allows readers to choose their own reading path through correlated events — as experienced by the six doctors who have wound up at this remote location, across timelines spanning from 1960 through Julebord. And as the race is on for Investigator Redding to solve the crime, it becomes clear that in today’s small global village we are all linked in some way — whether we want to be or not. The first book in Øybo’s Correlations Trilogy, Julebord has been a finalist of the Canadian Book Club Awards and has been acclaimed as a “gleefully unorthodox and absorbing crime story” (Kirkus Reviews).

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