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"They come here thinking they're writers and leave as personalities", thinks Mona Tarrile-Byrne a young peruvian novelist. After a spiral into Californian drugs and erotic adventures, Mona lands up in a little Swedish town along with a few of her colleagues who have all been nominated for the prestigious Basske Wortz literary prize.
"Women who read" could just as well have been entitled women who sang, women who painted, women who played piano or women who danced. All of them, the women who came before us, had anxieties, dreamed of being something more than that which destiny had marked them for.