Book review: Sophie Elise Isachsen – “role Model” – VG

If the young role models are a mirror of the time they live in, it is easy to be pessimist of to read Sophie Elises history.

The autobiographical book provides a picture of the outsider role in the schoolyard without it necessarily involves palestinaskjerf, LP-collection and sosialistmedlemskap. Harstad-the woman’s history is loaded with with a self-tanner, suicidal thoughts, depression, selfies, self harm and anxiety.

Much of the “role Model” is dark and badly. A young mobbeoffer in Harstad, norway who are unable to walk out the door without hårextentions, three BRAS that make the bust larger, with a self-tanner and two layers løsvipper. She is ashamed of that family did not have enough money and a nicer car. She dare rarely raise their voice or talk to strangers. From the couch at home watching Sophie Elise Linni Meister on TV and dreams himself away to a life in Oslo. Utenforheten and nevrosene ends in anxiety and self-mutilation.

A blog is the rescue. Here Sophie Elise have a perfect life no matter how kjipt life is offline. While the blog is growing on the national level, Isachsen is still a mobbeoffer locally.

A cold winter’s evening, she is invited to attach a piece of home. The host will not have a blogger at the party her and flings the door in her face in front of festgjester. Isachsen is ashamed and will not admit the rejection of the parents. Therefore, she sits in a bus sheds in the several hours before she calls his father. Frozen stiff and unhappy.

She describes the empty feeling of taking off the bandages after silikonoperasjonen on 18-the anniversary. Suddenly, there is the nose that need to be fixed in place. The family facing the family back in disgust, but Sophie Elise continues with the operations.

no Matter how many times she goes in the throat of the Mannegruppa Ottar, I think it is far too many, also the classic feministen, to be regarded Isachsen, who a “real feminist” before she takes a final settlement with the plastic.

This is not a long blog post in book form as some might expect. “Exemplar” is reminiscent of a dark ungdomsroman with a strong and complex protagonist.

Isachsen writes verbally and clearly. Especially good is she when she eventually moves to Oslo and describes life as one of the country’s most famous bloggers. She experiments with drugs and burns on the poor people. It all is referred to in the Bret Easton Ellis-esque phrases;

“I also had time to invite him, one boy with my hotel room a couple of times and he said “wow, for a nice room” and I shrugged even though it was a suite, but I had just gotten used to it, and as we lay in bed and heard the tropical house and had sex and then we did the same again a few days after.”

Isachsen, driver self-examination in the high pace and the ability to land on both feet – both rhetorically and in reality.

Things are getting better, much because she discovers the role of social commentator.

“All of the days I would lay and cry – for they were even – and I should think of others. what I could do, who my voice reached out to, what was important to me even. It was important for me to not be depressed the rest of my life. It was important for me to feel that I did something”, type Isachsen, which today is one of his generation’s most distinctive voices.

“role Model” is a pink noir-book to become a friend with their own uncertainties and demons, and to tear down the illusions that create them.

CAMILLA BJØRN