What Makes a Myth?

And how do those myths in turn shape us, sustain us, and sometimes prove to be our undoing?

These are the questions at the heart of Dreaming of Freydis,  a novel about two women from a Danish family haunted by their memories of the Nazi Occupation. 

Holly is a minor legend in Harvard Square. Cerebral, ethereal, and dismissed as an eccentric, she has been floundering in her ongoing research of Freydis, Leif Eiríksson’s heroically villainous sister. It is a life-long fascination passed down from her uncle, a renowned physician who once practiced medicine in Greenland. Shadowing Holly is the recent success of her younger, Americanized cousin, Winnie.  Tough and cocky, Winnie is hell-bent on making her mark as a mountaineer and extreme sports star. But when a climbing expedition in Antarctica ends in disaster, forcing Winnie to make a ruthless decision, everything changes. Confronted with her notoriety, Winnie turns inward, becoming obsessed with evidence that suggests an unnerving link between herself and Freydis.  It falls to Holly to sort out the truth, but she soon finds that Winnie’s feverish claims shroud family wartime secrets far darker than either of them could ever imagine.