{"product_id":"life-at-the-top-of-sandra-saraka-9781038322432","title":"Life at the Top of the World: Growing Up on Sweden's Arctic Circle","description":"'Life at the Top of the World: Growing Up on Sweden's Arctic Circle' highlights the story of Maria Maki Anttila, a Finnish-Swede residing in the northern hamlet of Juoksengi. Born in a sauna overlooking the Tornio River in the late 1800s, Maria learns not only to milk cows and churn butter on her family farm, but also to help with their grief at the passing of her two brothers. Her Mother's Finnish Bible with key verses signaled with a thread, mends hearts with hope and strength both during the prolonged winter nights and summers of the midnight sun. \u003cbr\u003eWith a yearning to explore new worlds and with few prospects for marriage in her small village, Maria, alone immigrates to Superior, Wisconsin in 1903, grasping but a scant vocabulary of English.\u003cbr\u003eShe is joined by her best friend, Hulda and, Hulda's two sisters. Together through a series of unlikely twists and turns in search of future husbands, they depart to connect with a community of Finnish settlers in Fort William, Ontario, later to become Thunder Bay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sandra Saraka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 103832243X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781038322432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e FriesenPress\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Sandra Saraka","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47304704229631,"sku":"9781038322432","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8c1e0d8b-2a3f-45dd-b82f-df0274c93dd1.jpg?v=1758828917","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/life-at-the-top-of-sandra-saraka-9781038322432","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}