Hlynur Björn is an unemployed 30-something
loner, still living with his mum, who spends his
days on the Internet, watching satellite TV, and
gazing at girls in the pub. But Hlynur's cosy,
unthreatening world is shaken when his mother
comes out as a lesbian, and her Spanish
girlfriend Lolla moves into their home. 101
Reykjavik is a first-person account of a blackly
funny and bizarre love triangle, a dark, comic
tale of perverse sexuality and slacker culture
in Iceland's trendy capital city that pokes fun
along the way at such foibles of our culture as
CNN weather reports and porn videos, offering
sharp insights into not only his endearing
characters, but also the curious youth culture
that they represent.