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The second volume in Stig Sæterbakken’s “S Trilogy,” Self-Control explores the consequences of a husband’s sudden loss of self-control after a seemingly trivial action. Andreas Feldt, a middle-aged man struggling with codependent marriage, feels unable to communicate with his adult daughter over lunch. When he announces he's going to get a divorce on an inexplicable whim, the family’s world crumbles around them. The family’s world falls apart, leaving Andreas adrift and forced to navigate through a society where it seems virtually everyone is only one loss of self-control away from an explosion of dissatisfaction and rage.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: Family & Domestic Fiction/Marriage & Divorce Fiction
Authors: Stig Sæterbakken
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