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Nordic Book Club, August 2024

Tue, Aug 13

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Nordic Book Club, August 2024
Nordic Book Club, August 2024

Time & Location

Aug 13, 2024, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT

Virtual, via Google Meet

About the Event

Join us in August as we read Deep River (2020) by Karl Marlantes.

From the publisher (Grove Atlantic):

In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russia’s imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings―Ilmari, Matti, and the politicized young Aino―are forced to flee to the United States. Not far from the majestic Columbia River, the siblings settle among other Finns in a logging community in southern Washington, where the first harvesting of the colossal old-growth forests begets rapid development, and radical labor movements begin to catch fire. The brothers face the excitement and danger of pioneering this frontier wilderness―climbing and felling trees one-hundred meters high―while Aino, foremost of the books many strong, independent women, devotes herself to organizing the industry’s first unions. As the Koski siblings strive to rebuild lives and families in an America in flux, they also try to hold fast to the traditions…

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