Song of Sampo Lake
By: William Durbin
Edition: 1st University of Minnesota Press ed.
Series: The Fesler-Lampert Minnesota heritage book series
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816675692
Subjects: Fiction; Finnish Americans; Immigrants; Frontier and pioneer life; Family life
Description: In 1900, as a family of Finnish immigrants begins farming on the edge of a Minnesota lake, Matti works as a store clerk, teaches English, and works on the homestead, striving to get out of his older brother's shadow and earn their father's respect.