About my memoir…
My memoir, which details growing up in 1950s western Massachusetts as a Finnish American child, explores how I survived abuse at the hands of my father to become a happily married, best-selling texbook author.
At its best, my story is one of the endurance, serenity, and love, and at its worst, one of persistence, pain, and terror, stemming from the generational trauma of the Finnish Civil War.
It was from this bloody conflict, shrouded in secrecy for generations, that my grandfather daringly escaped an enemy concentration camp and endeavored to start a new life in America.
