A multi-layered autobiographical novel about three women, three cities and one family. The narrator is a writer who one day decided to find a definition for the rejection that had haunted her throughout her life and which she had long accepted as the norm. Telling the story of Rita, Sally and Catherine, she traces how secrets, lies and taboos are passed down from one generation of a family to the next. Plunging into the lives of women of previous generations in her family, Elisabeth Osbrink tries to get to the root of her alienation from people, to understand why she is weighed down by the same strange burden that prevented her family from living. “Rejection” is a captivating novel about love, emigration and humanity, which find themselves in the shadow of hatred and evil. And, as the narrator notes: “This is fiction, and therefore everything that is said here is true.”