Nikolai’s Fortune

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. 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.

"A brooding, often beautiful tale of life in the Far North and the immigrant experience." -Kirkus Reviews

"The saga of countless families who survived starvation, ostracism and war to reach America." -The Seattle Times