Deep River

Available from Scandinavian Specialties when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

'Deep River is an engrossing and commanding historical epic about one immigrant family's shifting fortunes....a feat of lavish storytelling." - Mark Athitakis, Washington Post In the early 1900's, as Russia's oppressive rule takes its toll on Finland, a courageous young girl, Aino Koski, is forced to flee from the Russian secret police to the United States. She joins her brothers, Matti and Ilmari, in a Finnish logging community near the majestic Columbia River. There, the colossal old-growth fo