Loppuun asti lystikkäät
Putting together a bookshelf ought to be fairly simple. At Jani and Lotta’s, however, it becomes a never-ending project, through which Jani’s family tries desperately to forge bonds with each other. Jani’s father, mother and big brother Lauri get stuck in the apartment, talking past one other, acting self-consciously and trying to remember whether they have ever really been a family. Into the fray comes a Woman Writer, hoping the family will provide inspiration, new life for her works. Even though people leave the bookshelf, trudging as far off as Niagara Falls, or Sysmä, a distant Finnish town, these people are nevertheless always bound to each other, like it or not. Exit Laughing will make anyone who has ever had a family, or wished for one, laugh and cry in turns.
”Oh shit, what’s all this hassle over one shelf, a big man dragging himself off fishing half-dead, even though he’s completely knackered?”
