{"product_id":"what-we-leave-behind","title":"What We Leave Behind","description":"What We Leave Behind has been chosen by the North Dakota Center for the Book to be included in the \"Great Reads from Great Places\" list for the 2025 National Book Festival of the Library of Congress! ***\nMartin and Asta came to America in 1913 to homestead and create a better life for themselves and a hoped-for family. Nineteen years later during the difficult years of the Great Plains Dust Bowl, they intend to improve the lives of three of their nine children by sending their eighteen-year-old daughter with her two younger sisters to Norway to live with relatives for two years.\nBut things do not go according to plan.\nThe oldest sister falls in love with and marries a young Norwegian man leaving the two younger sisters with no one to take them home. By 1940, when Germany invades Norway, the two younger sisters were living with the family relative who in the meantime married a Quisling, a member of the Norwegian Nazi Party. The two sisters miss the last US evacuee ship out of Petsamo, Finland, and soon German soldiers take one sister to Grini, a concentration camp north of Oslo. Eventually she and her older sister both marry men active in the Norwegian Resistance Movement of WWII.\nWill the entire family ever reconnect?\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 164719928X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.164719928X.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Solberg, Barb\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43338100736061,"sku":"BVV.164719928X.G","price":14.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/164719928X-0.jpg?v=1783906201","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/what-we-leave-behind","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}