As a child, Solveig Torvik heard stories of a lost, mysterious
great-grandfather who left Finland for America to make his fortune
- leaving Torvik's great-grandmother and his unborn daughter
behind. As a reporter, Torvik determined to discover the fate of
the man who followed his dreams to Oregon. She uncovered not only
the story of one man, but also the saga of an entire family. In
Nikolai's Fortune, a tale of Scandinavian women, the journalist
turns fact into fiction and shares the tales of her ancestors as
she imagines they would have told them. Nikolai's Fortune is a
heartbreaking, multigenerational epic, chronicling family secrets
and sufferings against the backdrop of Scandinavian history and
culture. Blending memoir and historical fiction, grandmother,
mother, and daughter each share their own story: Kaisa, of her
mother's love for Nikolai and her own 500-mile trek at the age of
twelve from impoverished Finland across the snowy mountains of
Lapland; Berit, of child slavery and an obsession with seeking out
her grandfather's fortune for her mother; and Hannah, the voice of
Torvik, of her childhood during the Nazi occupation of Norway and
her family's emigration to Idaho. Through detailed historical
research into census, church, and weather records, as well as
academic and museum sources, Torvik recaptures a dramatic story
nearly lost to memory and inherits something worth more than a
fortune in riches - a sense of her family history, ethnic
background, and the generations of remarkable women who came before
her. Norwegian-born Solveig Torvik was a reporter, editor, and
columnist at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for thirty years. She
was also a reporter for United Press International in Salt Lake
City and for the San Francisco Chronicle, and an editor at the San
Jose Mercury News.
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