ANNA & JENNY
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She would come down to the wharf each morning and sit on the bench and look out at the sea in an expectant way, as if she was looking for someone, or maybe trying to see where they were catching the fish, there where the flowers grew up behind the benches, many would sit on and look out at the sea in Arendal, Norway. He noticed each day when he came in with his boat, filled with the fish he and his brothers Storm and Hal had caught, wondering who she was.
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A Jewish woman marries a Norwegian man and gives birth to a boy and places the child in an orphanage home in southern Norway under an assumed name when Germany invades Norway in 1940. She and her husband then join the Norwegian resistance movement. Near the end of the war, her husband is shot and dies, and she is put in an institution when she has a mental breakdown. The boy then comes a ward of the state and is adopted by an American couple when he is 10, along with a 1year old girl. He lives a life of privilege in Cairo, Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East, where his adopted father is the Middle East representative for an American bank. His life though is troubled and uncertain by the erratic, alcoholic behavior of his adopted father to such an extent that his adopted mother takes him and her daughter back to her family in America. When he turns 40, he becomes curious about his biological parents and goes back to Norway and is reunited with his mother.
About the Author
The author has written a book that has deep roots in his past and has created his characters from an environment that still lives with him. He was born in Norway and became a US citizen when he was fi fteen and is a Veteran. He is the author of JENFORD, ERNHOLDER, HAN HARLOWE, SEESAW, KICKAPOO, and other books. In his writing he has been infl uenced by many writers, especially William Faulkner and Knut Hamsun.