Anna Nordberg — Press & Events

Media Coverage for When She Was Ours

Los Angeles Book Review

When She Was Ours by Anna Nordberg is one of those quietly emotional novels that sneaks up on you. I didn’t expect to feel so invested so quickly, but within the first few chapters, I was completely pulled into Astra’s world, a place shaped by love, loss, and the complicated weight of family expectations.

Manhattan Book Review

There’s a quiet maturity to When She Was Ours by Anna Nordberg that really stayed with me. This isn’t a book that demands your attention with dramatic twists; it earns it through emotional honesty. As someone who’s seen a few seasons of life, I found myself drawn less to the surface story and more to the deeper questions it raises about resilience, responsibility, and the invisible ties within families.

Paraphrase Podcast with Stephen Fishbach

Debut novelist Anna Nordberg joins author Stephen Fishbach to talk about escalating stakes in scene-setting, being pigeon-holed into a genre, and how to transmogrify your own personal grief into a work of art.