Fall of Odel

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The Fall of Odel tells the 2-part story of Mary’s modern-day life and how it was turned upside down by the centuries-old Odel Law. Part 1 is a chilling account of an otherwise carefree life tormented by love and loss. Examining the conflicting beliefs and traditions of the different cultures in which Mary and her husband, Aron, were raised, Mary reevaluates her intuitive abilities and question how well she knew the man she married. Part 2 is a continuation of Mary’s story twenty years later when she visits Aron’s grave to say ‘goodbye’ and, as hands from his mother’s grave reach for her ankles, she falls. Upon awakening, Mary finds herself in the afterlife, surrounded by ghosts who are sentenced accordingly for their wrongdoing. The Fall of Odel is fiction based on real life events. Though both parts of the novel tell the story of Mary’s struggles with the Odel Law of Norway, Part 2, The Fall of the House of Odel, directs the reader’s attention to the negative effects of suicide on a family of an Odler.