Kristine Brancolini’s Reviews > Miss Iceland > Status Update

As others have noted, don’t be tricked by the title or the cover art. This is not a book about a beauty queen. Set in 1963, it is about Hekla, a young woman writer who despairs of being published in a country with few women authors. Her friend Isey, a young mother, is also a writer. Only one other person knows that Hekla is a writer, her best friend Jon, who is gay and persecuted. He dreams of fleeing with Hekla.