Line Norman Hjorth and Vigdis Hjorth - Selected Title Authors
We are happy to present our selected title authors Line Norman Hjorth and Vigdis Hjorth. They have written Like It or Lump It. The Year We Got Cancer (original title: Kul i brystet. Året vi ble syke). The book is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the spring 2025.
What is your book about?
VIGDIS: The book is about having your self-understanding shaken to its core—a thought-provoking, challenging, and, at times, downright funny exercise.
LINE: The book is about having a body and about having a mother;
about having breasts that must go—and about having a mother;
about getting new breasts—and about having a mother
…who also gets new breasts.
What inspired you to write this book?
LINE: We wrote this book because we disagreed, because we had different perspectives, similar and opposing experiences, because I needed to clear the air, to figure out what was illness and what was childhood.
VIGDIS: We’ve always butted heads and struggled to see eye to eye, and it only got worse over the years—especially when we got sick. So we wrote our way through it. Now, we’re better friends than before. All mothers and daughters should write a book together.
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