What We Leave Behind

Martin and Asta came to America in 1913 to homestead. Nineteen years later during the Great Plains Dust Bowl, they intend to improve the lives of three of their nine children by sending their eighteen-year-old daughter with her two younger sisters to Norway to live with relatives for two years. But things don't go according to plan. By 1940, when Germany invades Norway, two of the girls are living with a Quisling, a member of the Norwegian Nazi Party, and they miss the last US evacuee ship out of Petsamo, Finland. One sister spends time in Grini, a concentration camp north of Oslo; she and her older sister both marry men active in the Norwegian Resistance Movement of WWII.
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