"Pappa sa att vårt fönster var som lucka 24 i en adventskalender. Han drömde om att folk gick förbi huset, tittade upp mot lägenheten och tänkte att där måste det bo ett duktig fruntimmer. - Jävlar vad förvånade dom blev, kärringarna, om dom fick höra att här bor inget fruntimmer, här bor härdmästare Leif Andersson!" Mig äger ingen är Åsa Lindeborgs berättelse om uppväxten med sin ensamstående pappa, härdare på Metallverken i Västerås. En berättelse om klasstilhörighet, manlighet och utanförskap. Om alkoholens makt och en dotters vånda. Drömmen om förändring står mot rädslan att sticka ut. Humorn blir en vardagsstrategi för en brokig arbetarsläkt under folkhemments storhet och fall.
Author
Åsa Natacha Linderborg (née Andersson, born 20 May 1968) is a Swedish writer and historian. She writes regularly for Aftonbladet, where she works as chief cultural editor. Åsa Linderborg was born in the city of Västerås, where she also grew up. Her father worked as a metalworker and her mother, Tanja Linderborg, is a former politician and Member of Parliament for the Left Party – Communists. Åsa Linderborg herself became a member of the Left Party – Communists in 1980 and the following year of its youth wing, the Communist Youth. In 1987 she became an ombudsman for the Communist Youth in Mälardalen. Linderborg graduated with a Ph.D. in history from Uppsala University in 2001 with the dissertation Socialdemokraterna skriver historia ("Social Democrats Write History: History Writing Used as an Ideological Power Resource"), about the Swedish Social Democratic Party. In 2007 Mig äger ingen , was released. The book received good reviews and was nominated for the August Prize in the category best Swedish-language novel of the year. On 27 March 2008, Linderborg was presented as the new deputy cultural editor of Aftonbladet, with Karin Magnusson becoming the chief cultural editor. In 2009 Linderborg replaced Magnusson as chief cultural editor.
