Driven by gloomy thoughts and anxiety, Johanna gets stranded in a surf camp in the Portuguese Algarve coast. She does not return to Berlin after her two-weeks of summer holiday, resume her career as a voice actress, and to save her relationship with Rosa. Instead, she decides to stay on the Atlantic coast and starts working at the surf camp, falls in love with two women at once, and seems to feel a little lighter with every day in the waves. But with the onset of autumn, what she actually wants to leave behind catches up with her.
"House of Wind" is a surf novel without surfer boys, a summer novel with a stormy winter. It's the belated coming of age of a child who grew up too early. And the story of a queer East German woman searching for her own voice.
"It's such a pleasure to inhabit this novel, which laughs, breathes and is full of saving thoughts." - Daniela Dröscher
"This shows linguistic and dramaturgical talent" and "A painfully beautiful story about a deep human desire: to be able to live and love without shame" - SWR Kultur - lesenswert Magazin, Kristine Harthauer
"An intense, strong debut." - Tagesspiegel
"such cool sentences [...] so funny, so well observed." - NDR - eat.READ.sleep, Katharina Mahrenholtz
