Calypso is a novel in diary form with a strange subtitle �?A pathetic novel�?, dissecting the life of the protagonist narrator in lucid, precise style.

Rebeka has twenty-five years, a dream job at the radio (not so dream-like after all) and an unusual record of relationships with men. Each affair is a reaching out towards the fullness of life, and each ends with another bout of depression and an empty fridge: Rebeka knows no middle ground and no moderate feelings, on the brink of madness is the only place where she is alive.