Norma

When Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the slightest changes in her mood - and the moods of those around her - moving of its own accord, corkscrewing when danger is near. And so it is her hair that alerts her, while she talks with a strange man at her mothers funeral, that her mother may not have taken her own life. Setting out to reconstruct Anitas final months - sifting through puzzling cell phone records, bank statements, video files - Norma begins to realize that her mother knew more about her hairs powers than she let on: a sinister truth beyond Normas imagining. As Sofi Oksanen leads us ever more deeply into Normas world, weaving together past and present, she gives us a dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of womens bodies and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty.

Categories: Paranormal / Supernatural