Fabulous Family Holomolaiset

by Patricia Eilola

Description

All families have stories. For many families with immigrant roots, those stories are of the "old country" and times good and bad along other shores. For a particular Finnish immigrant family living in northern Minnesota, these stories focused on a fabulous Sami family called Hölömöläiset, who faced great difficulties and privations but solved them all in fantastic ways - escaped freezing at night by charming wild animals to come and sleep with them; caught their winter food by tempting show more fish to leap into their wagon; built a cabin with four huge logs. Yet within these amusing adventures were kernels of understanding that helped the immigrant family deal with their own difficult times - how can one be afraid of wolves when wolves helped keep the Hölömöläiset warm? Around the wonderful Hölömöläiset stories is the story of a young girl's family in northern Minnesota. They, took faced hardships and learned to conquer them, not with incredible luck or super-human feats, but with courage and patience and understanding. - Back cover. show less