Boel is writing her thesis in ethnology and will be doing fieldwork at the Nordic Museum. She is twenty-nine years old and in constant conflict with herself. When she is invited into the life of the museum, a new world opens up, full of hierarchies and history, things that disappear and things that get put right. She is helped to navigate her new existence by Oskar and Annika, who have worked at the museum for a long time, but who both have their own ways of getting lost. All three are accompanied by fear: Boel is afraid of dying, Annika is afraid that her eating disordered daughter will die and Oskar, yes, he is afraid that life will never really begin.

375 pages

Reviews:

"It was just a joy" - Go' Kväll TV show

“Is this an exciting read? The answer is YES! … Malin Haawind has captured the essence of the DNA that is human, what it looks like. For that achievement she deserves extra praise.” – Ölandsbladet , Magazine

“The dialogue, both the external and the internal, is written with great care. Malin Haawind, who is herself an ethnologist, once again manages to bring the emotions to life between the lines. Collecting Lives is her ninth book and a warm story about being human.” – BTJ Library Services