Big in Sweden : Headline : 9781035420148 : 1035420147 : 02 Jul 2024 : 'Full of quick insight and charming detail. . . packed with one-liners' KATHERINE HEINY 'A flat out delight . . . I laughed out loud, I ugly cried' MEG RYAN I would go to Sweden and everything would be different. I'd be surrounded by tens of hundreds of Alexander Skarsgårds. They'd put flower crowns in my hair . . . carry IKEA furniture instead of guns . . . ???? One Swedish summer. ???? One reality TV show. ?? One chance to find out who she really is. * Paulie Johansson is lost: on the brink of midlife, all she's got to show for herself is a dead-end job and some serious family baggage. Maybe that's why, drunk and sure it's a fool's errand, she agrees to audition for Sverige och Mig, a Swedish reality show where Americans compete to win an unusual prize - a reunion with long-lost Scandinavian family. To everyone's surprise (and her boyfriend Declan's disapproval) Paulie makes the final cast, dropping everything