author : Sara Stridsbergfacebook : https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sara-Stridsberg/108538282501144Sara Stridsberg is an internationally acclaimed writer and playwright. Her fiction and nonfiction books have been translated into more than twenty languages. A former member of the Swedish Academy, she is a leading feminist and artist in her native Sweden and around the world. Valerie is her first book to be published in the US.