"It's been fifty-one years, two months, and eight days since we were last here." A successful journalist, widow, and proud grandmother, Märit is reluctant to return to her native Norrköping to celebrate her twin brother Jonas's seventieth birthday—until an irresistible pull changes everything. Almost against her will, she gets off the train at Lund. What she's looking for is her brother Lars's grave, buried in the city's sprawling psychiatric hospital. He never left.
Majgull Axelsson's second novel, *Your Life and Mine*, is a brutal book. The Swedish writer, dramatist, and journalist first made her name through investigative reporting, then turned to fiction without losing her rage for justice and her eye for human suffering. In prose of masterly control, she lays bare one of the darkest chapters in modern Swedish history: the systematic destruction of children and adults with mental disabilities who were locked away, sterilized, used as experimental subjects, tortured, and killed.
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