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Reinvention is a rite of passage for a teenager, and Adele, or Ivy, or whatever she’s calling herself today, is no exception. Newly shackled with a devastating family secret, she boards a bus to the City by the Bay and makes a go of it on her own—but being a runaway isn’t easy. . . .
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Hard times and poverty in rural Norway, early 1800′s. Based loosely on some poor folks who had the misfortune to be my ancestors. One of them stole some potatoes and other food to feed her family of seven. For this she received 8 months in prison, where my great-grandfather was born. These are the facts. The rest, as they say, . . .
“Anna Larsdattar: Hunger in the Dale” is the story of a farmer’s family in Norway at the beginning of the 19th century. Mari Nelsdattar is a skilled midwife but at 47 she’s having problems with her own, dangerously-late pregnancy. A recent widow with 3 small children, she’s at the mercy of the laws of the local constable, the prejudices of [more . . .]
This is how compelling this story is: I don’t know if I can finish reading it, because I care so very very much about what’s happening to the protagonist and the current main supporting character, and right now is very dark & scary part of the plot. Something is very probably going to go wrong soon, and it’s going to [more . . .]