Back to Misery Bay [Perfect Paperback]

Lauri Anderson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2007

Author Lauri Anderson goes back to Misery Bay in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to draw more Finnish characters, pointing out their foibles, their strengths, and sometimes disastrous tendencies. "Many of Lauri Anderson's Finns seem determined to raise their various dysfunctionalities to an art form," says Judy Hakola, and in doing so, Anderson creates some truly funny stories of the typical Finn who is, in today's society, clearly not a typical fellow.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Like Faulkner and O'Connor, Anderson commits his imagination to his own stamp of the universe the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Once again, in this collection, he delivers well-wrought stories of gravity and levity, of things fleeting, of a love of one's region. --Kevin Cole, University of Sioux Falls

Lauri Anderson deftly and often humorously captures the love-hate relationship that his Finnish-American characters have with Misery Bay, their hearts' home in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Many of Lauri Anderson's Finns seem determined to raise their various dysfunctionalities to an art form, but through their very fallibility they tug at our hearts. As one wise old Finn advises his war-shattered nephew, People are really screwed up but love them anyway. They're all we have. --Judy Hakola, Lecturer in English, University of Maine

About the Author

Lauri Anderson is the author of a number of books, including: Misery Bay, Children of the Kalevala, Heikki Heikkinen, and now Back to Misery Bay.

Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc.; 1st edition (July 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0878392564
• ISBN-13: 978-0878392568
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #662,347 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)