Butterfly Heart, Moa Backe Astot
Butterfly Heart, Moa Backe Astot
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Butterfly Heart

Author: Moa Backe Åstot, Agnes Broomé

Narrator: Laura Knight Keating

Unabridged: 5 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/28/2025


Synopsis

Vilda takes life as it comes, talking for hours about everything and nothing with her best friend, Alma. It’s never been a big deal to Vilda that her mother’s side of the family is Sámi and her father’s is Swedish, but as summer vacation starts, she wants to know more about her indigenous roots—and she’s looking forward to her beloved grandfather, Áddjá, teaching her the Sámi language. Then Áddjá has a fatal heart attack and, overnight, Vilda loses not only a person she loves most in the world, but a crucial link to her history and identity. It’s disorienting in ways deep and superficial: she doesn’t know what to wear, what to say, or how Alma and her friends should react. And all this comes while her body is changing, and she’s swamped by confusing thoughts and feelings about an older boy she meets at her grandfather’s funeral. Feeling whole seems impossibly hard to reach. Butterfly Heart is a tender, heartwarming story about love, grief, and the right to define who you are.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kat on October 07, 2025

When Vilda's granddad dies, she feels alone, lost, and overwhelmed. Her Áddjá was everything to her — the closest person to her heart — but he was also her only link to something unknown and distant: the Sámi world. Vilda knows that she is half Sámi, but she doesn’t truly understand what that means.......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on October 30, 2025

Beautiful story on finding yourself This was a beautiful witty YA novel. I could feel my feelings from back then so poignantly from what the character went through from crushes, to your body changing, working out relationships, grief and identify. It was a great read.......more

Goodreads review by Leslie on January 10, 2026

I wasn't sure how to pronounce a lot of the words in this book, but it was a very beautiful story!......more

Goodreads review by Linda on January 20, 2026

Sweet book about new beginnings, familial love, missing loved ones. Grief and love can be one and the same.......more