Men in My Situation

A major new novel from the author of the international bestseller Out Stealing Horses.Men in My Situation is a tender, scintillating portrait of grief, fatherhood and a life nearly going to pieces.

In 1992 Arvid Jansen is thirty-eight and divorced. Turid has left with their three girls, slipping into her young, exuberant crowd of friends - the colourful - and a new house with no trace of their previous life together. More than a year has passed since the tragic accident that took his parents and two of his brothers. Existence has become a question of holding on to a few firm things. Loud, smoky bars, whisky, records, company for the night and taxis home. Or driving his Mazda into the stunning, solitary landscape outside of Oslo, sleeping in the car when his bed is an impossible place to be, craving a connection that is always just beyond reach.

At some point, the girls decide against weekend visits with their dad. Arvid suspect