ALL FOR BODIL

ALLT FÖR BODIL – ALL FOR BODIL

By David Ärlemalm

In All for Bodil the former addict and car-thief Arto is fighting hard to manage life as a single parent. He works evening shifts in the kitchen of the restaurant where he is a co-owner on paper but from which no one can get a salary so far. To make ends meet he takes extra shifts at a moving company run by an old acquaintance with a questionable past. His daughter, Bodil, is now 11. Arto’s schedule means that she is alone a lot, too much. During the summer holiday when she doesn’t have school to attend she starts roaming the streets on a skateboard, sometime late at night. It quickly escalates to risky situations and one of those nights she becomes the sole witness to a ruthless crime. It makes her life take a dangerous turn and marks the start of an enthralling story from a deserted summer-Stockholm.

David Ärlemalm’s writing is captivating, thrilling and moving, true to what critics has described as “Ärlemalm-noir”. It is about a father trying his best to create a life for him and his daughter but at the same time being far from a safe haven for the young girl. It is about people in the shadows, who we rarely get to read about