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The Invention of Lefse: A Christmas Story (eBook)

Larry Woiwode (Author)

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Formats: Kindle (.prc) or ePub
Publisher: Crossway
Kindle ISBN: 9781433527364 
ePub ISBN: 9781433527395
File Size: 1.00 MB
Printed Length: 64

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Description: “Mette Iversdatter’s window was a porthole on the winter sky.”

Larry Woiwode brings us into the simple and anxious rhythms of life for a Norwegian farm girl in the first decade of the twentieth century. Christmas Eve falls in the midst of deprivation as Mette’s family prepares to journey to her grandparents’ farm. When her father fails to bag a big deer on the journey, they arrive, like everyone else, almost empty-handed. Yet despite frustration and disappointment, this extended family combines their meager resources to create an unexpected marvel that transforms the family’s Christmas.

Sharply observed and crisply written, Woiwode’s story throbs with truths known to human hearts in any century. He carefully renders the hesitant hopes of a child, the aching disappointments and steady perseverance of her elders, and the surprise of beauty and joy. That prayers may yet be answered—that the provision may be greater even than the promise—is a truth for Christmas and always.

“Woiwode has a poet’s sensibility, and his scenes can resonate with perfect descriptions, not a detail astray. . . . I could go on enumerating the solidity and effective voice with which Woiwode sketches his world.”
--The New York Times Book Review

“Here is a writer truly of American grain, a writer whose prose throbs with affection for and understanding of the land and its people.”
--The Washington Post Book World

About the Author
Larry Woiwode is the recipient of numerous literary honors for his novels, short stories, essays, memoirs, and poetry. His work has been featured in publications such as The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Books & Culture, and The Atlantic. He is the Poet Laureate of North Dakota and is Writer in Residence at Jamestown College.
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