Lighthearted Moments of Speaking in Tongues

Saga Björk Frímannsdóttir has a background that tends to raise eyebrows. “My mother hails from Brazil, while my father is Icelandic,” she says, and leaves it at that — as if the combination explains everything and nothing at the same time. She is normally based in Copenhagen, though we spoke while she was in Piracicaba, a city in São Paulo, Brazil.