![]() On their last night together, Lauren accompanies Siri and her friends on a seaside camping trip to celebrate Midsommar’s Eve, a night when no one sleeps, boundaries blur, and under the light of the unsetting sun, things take a dark turn. Siri is resentful, and Lauren starts to see a new side of her friend: selfish, reckless, self-destructive, even cruel. ![]() But once there, Lauren finds herself drawn to Siri’s enigmatic, brooding brother, Magnus. When Siri invites her on a trip home to Sweden for the summer, Lauren impulsively accepts, intrigued by how Siri describes it: green, fresh, and new, everything just thawing out. They fall headlong into an all-consuming friendship that makes Lauren feel as though she is reclaiming her lost adolescence. ![]() She seems to exist at a remove from everyone around her until a new student joins her class: charming, magnetic Siri, who appears to be everything Lauren wishes she could be. But in her personal life, Lauren is troubled and isolated, still grappling with the sudden death of her parents ten years earlier. In the classroom, she is poised, smart, and kind, well liked by her students and colleagues. Lauren Cress teaches writing at a small college outside of Washington, D.C. ![]()
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