Leaving Norway

by Solveig Astrid Schavland  

On the day Solveig Schavaland was born, June 9, 1940, German troups invaded Norway. Shortly after the war ended in 1945, the Schavland family immigrated to the United States. A half century later Solveig decided to write a family history, a memoir of a Norwegian family, from ancestors in Norway to the life of the family that immigrated and made their home in the United States.

“After all these years, I still wonder what my life would have been like if we had never left Norway. I share the fate of those who leave their native land. When I am in the States I long for Norway, and when I am in Norway I long for the States. But my home is here with the family and the life I have made in all the years since leaving Norway.” – Solveig Astrid Schavland

• Paperback
• 42 pp.
• 7 x 9.25 inches
• $20.
• ISBN: 978-0-9815620-1-8
• 2009