I found this book from 1993 by the Danish writer Peter Hoeg to be pretty rough going. It started off really engaging and that carried on for about 100 pages, and then after about 150 more I was slogging through the novel, and ended up speed skimming through the rest. The novel is narrated by Smilla, a Greenland Inuit with a Danish father living in Copenhagen. She returns home one evening to learn that a neighbor boy, a fellow Inuit whom she has befriended, has […]