GIRLS LOST

POJKARNA – GIRLS LOST

By Jessica Schiefauer

During the day – the girls, the misfits, the vulnerable, the constantly observed.

At night – the anonymous boys, the observers.

We were fourteen that spring, Bella, Momo and me.
We kept to ourselves.
In the winter afternoons we were usually in Momo’s room, but during the warm part of the year, we sat in Bella’s garden, or inside the greenhouse if it rained.
We lived in the middle of all the living and growing, and it made ​​me forget that I was Kim, that I had a body that grew too. The greenhouse was a free zone, a place where other laws ruled.

DURING THE DAY Kim and her girlfriends Bella and Momo put up with the boy’s intrusive gazes and sexist insults. But at night they drink the nectar from a magical flower which turns them into boys.
Kim can’t get enough of the freedom a boy’s body offers and as a boy she also falls in love with Tony. Together the two of them experience excitement and attraction, but as a girl Kim does not interest Tony.

EVERYTHING RAPIDLY FALLS apart for Kim, Tony, Bella and Momo and things escalate into a heart-stopping resolution.

GIRLS LOST IS an account of the teenage years like no other. It combines the painfully everyday with the beautifully magical in a tale of transformation, love, sisterhood and coming of age.

THE NOVEL HAS been translated into Arabic, Danish, English, Faorese, Finnish, French, Italian, Norwegian, and Turkish. Girls Lost has also inspired two theatre adaptations in 2014 and 2017, and the 2016 film based on the book was a huge critical success and won several international awards.