Audun is the only one of his family left with his mother in
working-class Oslo. He delivers newspapers when he is not in school and
talks for hours about Jack London and Ernest Hemingway with his best
friend. But there are some things Audun won't talk about. Stories about
his family, such as the weeks he spent living in a couple of cardboard
boxes, and the day of his little brother's birth, when his drunken
father fired three shots into the ceiling. Both tender and brutal, "It's
Fine by Me "is a brilliant novel from the acclaimed author of "Out
Stealing Horses."