LENA KUPKE | »Pause« | HAMBURG

In the organizer's words:

"The book is by Lena Kupke! Anyone who doesn't blindly buy everything from her is crazy." - Till Reiners

The day the emergency doctor came was the day I moved back in with my parents. At the age of thirty-six. After an incisive experience, Hanna moves head over heels from Berlin back to her old home in Lüneburg - to her parents, to her old childhood room, which is now her father's office, complete with printer, electric blinds and 90 cm guest bed. But how is this supposed to work: everyday family life from zero to one hundred with three adults who have always preferred to sweep conflicts under the carpet rather than resolve them? Between old and fresh wounds, Hanna has to learn to heal herself and see her family through different eyes. And she discovers that love can be found even in the most helpless moments ...

Lena Kupke, born in 1986, studied English Studies and History in Bonn. She is an author and stand-up comedian. Her non-fiction book 'Truth or Dare. What I learned about being a woman'. 'Pause' is her debut novel. Lena Kupke lives with her family in Cologne.