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Each June, Tory Bilski meets up with fellow women travelers in Reykjavik where they head to northern Iceland, near the Greenland Sea. They escape their ordinary lives to live an extraordinary one at a horse farm perched at the edge of the world. If only for a short while.
When they first came to Thingeyrar, these women were strangers to one another. The only thing they had in common was their passion for Icelandic horses. However, over the years, their relationships with each other deepens, growing older together and keeping each other young.
These women leave behind the usual troubles at home: illnesses, aging parents, troubled teenagers, financial worries―and embrace their desire for adventure. Buoyed by their friendships with each other and their growing attachments and bonds with the otherworldly horses they ride, the warmth of Thingeyrar's midnight sun carries these women through the rest of the year's trials and travails.
Filled with adventure and fresh humor, as well as an incredible portrait of Iceland and its remarkable equines, Wild Horses of the Summer Sun will enthrall and delight not just horse lovers, but those of us who yearn for a little more wild in everyday life.
About the Author
Tory Bilski is a travel writer based in Connecticut. She writes primarily about Iceland - its people, horses, and history. In 2013, she created an award-winning blog, Icelandica, featuring tales of adventure (and misadventure) with a group of fellow women travelers in Iceland. She has recently written for Atlas Obscura, Hartford Courant, Roads & Kingdoms, Iceland Review, and others. She has published short stories in literary journals, such as, Kenyon Review, 13th Moon and Black Warrior Review —the latter where her story was nominated for a Pushcart. She graduated Oswego State, Wesleyan University, and completed a year of her MFA program at Sarah Lawrence University. She is inexplicably drawn to old Norse and Anglo-Saxon history and pretends not to believe that it's due to very exciting past life experiences.
Yes, I got a Covid puppy. I was barred from going into my office and like millions of others had the same united idea: it’s canine time! No more excuses of not getting a dog just to leave it alone all day in a crate. My whole house was a crate that my husband and I were stuck in for an interminable amount of time.