The title with tagline is WAIT, BLINK: A PERFECT PICTURE OF INNER LIFE. The omniscient narrator introduces several characters scattered across Scandinavia, mostly women, and traces their inner lives professionally, personally, and pop culturally. I really admire the way Øyehaug crafted the narrative voice; I found it clever and it worked well in audio. At the same time, I think it's a book I would love to reread in print—there were parts I wanted to linger on.

It's also funny. At one point a film director decides she'd like a romantic trajectory similar to Jesse and Celine in Before Sunrise. There's a student who falls in love with an author...from a book-jacket photograph; she's been working hard on an article about Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation and what it means when a woman wears a man's button-up in movies. That author? Well, he's just bouncing back from a relationship that fell apart because they had an intense argument about Kill Bill Vol 1 and 2. I was trying to figure out why all the references were from the late 90s and early aughts and then realized that though the English translation was published in 2018, the original book was published in 2008.