Ellen's stopped talking. She thinks she may have killed her dad. Her brother's barricaded himself in his room. Their mother, a successful actress, carries on as normal. We're a family of light! she insists. But darkness seeps in everywhere and in their separate worlds each of them longs for togetherness. Welcome to America is a scintillating portrait of a sensitive, strong-willed child in the throes of trauma, a family on the brink of implosion, and the love that threatens to tear them apart. (From World Editions)

Welcome to America is available in Sept. 2019.

Linda Boström Knausgård is a Swedish poet and radio documentary maker. Welcome to America is her second novel, following The Helios Disaster.