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Finnish Beginnings: Memoir - A Childhood in Finland
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About Finnish Beginnings: Memoir - A Childhood In Finland
Finnish Beginnings is a memoir about the author’s childhood in Finland. But it is much more than that. It is about her working class family and how they coped through four wars. It is about Finnish history and culture, told through the eyes of the author as a child, describing how the family was impacted by contemporary political and historical events. The father fought in three wars, and the author and her sister became part of one of the largest child evacuations in Europe. The last four chapters develop into an immigration story in which the family leaves Finland for Vancouver, BC, Canada in 1951, only to end up languishing in the dismal Immigration Building, described by Canadian author Pierre Berton as “the home of hope and heartbreak”. In the case of the author and her family, hope triumphs over heartbreak as they build a new life in Canada.
