Randi Fuglehaug - Selected Title Author
We are happy to present our selected title author Randi Fuglehaug. She has written Fine China (original title: Pent porselen). The book is one of NORLA’s Selected Titles of the autumn 2025.
What is your book about?
Fine China is about three women in three different phases of life – and about a rummage sale to raise money for the school band. For longtime “band mom” Iselin, this means tedious and exhausting volunteer work; for retiree Berit, it’s treasure-hunting and comfort; and for first-time mother-to-be Sarah, it’s nothing but bad childhood memories. She stays far away from yard sales – except for the ones she has to rush to as an ambulance driver. Fine China is a story about the reuse and renewal of both objects and people, and about being trapped in a life that didn’t turn out the way one had hoped. It’s a novel about loss, but also about rediscovery.
What inspired you to write this book?
A couple of years ago, I got to the local rummage sale just as an ambulance was arriving. A man was sitting on a bench with blood running down his forehead. When I asked some of the volunteers what had happened, I learned he had fallen and hurt himself while trying to cut in line during the opening rush. This sounds like a scene from a novel, I thought. Not long after, my own daughter joined the school band, which meant that I, too, had to volunteer at the rummage sale – this great collective effort that keeps school bands running across the country. When I discovered how many beautiful, tragic, and funny stories are hidden among the junk and treasures, and how many odd situations unfold over the course of rummage sale weekend, I decided to write that novel myself.
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