Trampolinia
Vidar Kvalshaug
Vidar Kvalshaug’s short stories address the love between parents and their offspring, the things that bind us together and the things that separate us.
Meet the wise child whose main desire is to make sure his parents are never unhappy, or the father who cripples his son in a car accident, a daughter desperately seeking attention, the girl who lost her big sister in a conflict-ridden divorce. All these conflicts are embedded in a community where everyone has all they need, where the houses are freshly painted, the lawns are trimmed and every garden has a trampoline. Kvalshaug writes about under communicated vulnerability, about children and adults who ought to be living good lives and yet are unbearably unhappy.
