As a child, Solveig Torvik heard stories of a lost, mysterious great-grandfather who left Finland for America to make his fortune--leaving Torvik's great-grandmother and his unborn daughter behind. In <i>Nikolai's Fortune</i>, a tale of Scandinavian women, the journalist turns fact into fiction and shares the tales of her ancestors as she imagines they would have told them.<p>"A brooding, often beautiful tale of life in the Far North and the immigrant experience." <i>-Kirkus Reviews</i><p>"The saga of countless families who survived starvation, ostracism and war to reach America." -<i>The Seattle Times</i>