Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow (Froken Smillas Fornemmelse for Sne) is published in the US as Smilla’s Sense of Snow. Smilla is a young...

The impetus for Genova’s book came from realizing how little is written from the point of view of the person with Alzheimer's disease.

Out of all the words I churned through while considering how to describe this novel the one that rose to the top was ‘sinister’. “In the...