One Station Away: A Novel

An Amazon Best Book of December 2017: In his restrained, intelligent, and highly affecting new novel, Olaf Olafsson portrays a man at a perpetual, frustrating state of estrangement with the world. Olafsson, whose previous novels include The Journey Home and Walking into the Night, here imagines the life of a neurobiologist, Magnus, whose relationships with three women (his pianist mother, his partner, and a “locked in” patient) are marked by questions about authenticity and identity. Magnus is a very particular person, but his desire to know more about the women he loves feels universal. --Sarah Harrison Smith, Amazon Book Review