My Street
A Christmas Story
- Author: Therese Bohman (Sweden)
- Book type: Swedish memoir, Christmas story
- Original: Kammakargatan (2025)
- English translation: Marlaine Delargy
- Publisher: Other Press
- To be released: October 27, 2026
- Length: 128 pages
- Format: hardback / ebook
- Prize: $ 21.99 / $ 12.99
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Therese Bohman My Street reviews and information
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- “My Straat is fleeting: a memory which starts to fade almost as quickly as it appears. As it draws to a close, so too does a period of Therese’s life, but what lingers is a sense of profound reflection; of crystallising that fleeting moment before it is lost. You cannot get to the end of this novella without reflecting on your own coming-of-age; without thinking fondly of the distant places and people that defined your own life. And perhaps that’s what Christmas is all about.” (Swedish Book Review)
- “Stockholm finally has its own Patrick Modiano.” (Svenska Dagbladet)
- “Bohman expertly makes use of the nostalgic glow around Christmas.” (Dagens Nyheter)
Blurb of the Therese Bohman Christmas story
In this winter tale with a hushed, haunting charm, an unexpected friendship changes the life of a lonely young woman in Stockholm.
Therese has just left the safety of her childhood home to begin a new life at Stockholm University. Her days are filled with nervousness, expectation, and loneliness. She rents a small room in the outskirts of the city, tries to carve out a place for herself in its vastness, and feels invisible in the lecture halls.
Everything changes when she meets Andreas. He dresses in black and carries himself with a blasé confidence. He also opens the door to another Stockholm, a world of literary fanzines, smoke-filled cafés, and late nights in an apartment on Kammakar Street. In the quiet, understated mystery between the city’s crowded throughfares and Kammakar Street’s desolation, a friendship begins to take shape, one that will come to define her life in many ways.