Review: Nature or Nurture
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 4, 2010
Imagine, if you can, growing up never having known your mother.  Your father is tight-lipped and tells you only that she died when you were a toddler.  When dad dies, leaving little family except a stepmother you never got along with, you feel unmoored - like you have no roots.  Then going through dad's old boxes you find a clue that helps you connect with your mother's family and also, in a way, with your long-gone mother."Swedish for Beginners" is both a light mystery and an exploration of roots.  What makes a family?  Is it nature (ties through blood) or nurture (the people that were always there for you).  Maybe the answer is a little of both.