![]() Håkan’s story begins in 1850, when his father, a poor and struggling farmer in Sweden, sends him and his brother to the US hoping that they will find a better life there. And though our adventures could not be more different, Håkan’s and my own story contain this truth: sometimes, the journeys we take alone contain important lessons. There isn’t another book that comes to mind that has evoked in me the feelings associated with being foreign-especially the occasional loneliness of that state-as precisely and as intensely as In the Distance by Hernan Diaz. Like the protagonist, I also emigrated from my home country on the cusp of adulthood, so this story resonated with me. It is the story of Håkan, a boy trying to find his place in a foreign country. In the Distance by Hernan Diaz is as much a coming-of-age story as it is a literary western. ![]()
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