Author Earl Anderson’s new book “A Child’s Christmas in Sweden and Other Memories” is a reflective memoir that shares the unique experiences of its subjects.
CONCORD, NC (PRWEB)
December 5, 2022
Earl Anderson, who grew up in the Boundary Waters, has completed his new book “A Child’s Christmas in Sweden and Other Memories”: a poignant and potent memoir that shares compelling true stories that have lived on as unforgettable memories.
At the age of twenty-three, Göran Bixo emigrated to northern Minnesota, armed with an engineering degree from Katrineholm. His young sister, Ruth, remembers in a memoir him and their grandfather, “Iorn Anners” (Iron Andersson), for carols and stories at Christmas. As a child Göran survived rheumatic fever. He almost died of the Spanish flu in 1918. During his days in Duluth he repaired tracks for the streetcar company. At night, he studied English and citizenship at Denfeld High School. He was popular as a singer, having been taught by his father, Bengt Bixo, the “Violin King of Mörsil”. His goal was to be a good newcomer, an ideal newcomer. In Letters Home, he recounts immigrant experiences in detail that is witty, perceptive and optimistic in times of adversity. In Sweden and North America, the documents in this book have circulated in the family for years. After a century, it is time to open them to the world in English translation.
Author Earl Anderson earned his BA at the Duluth campus of the University of Minnesota. A child of Swedish miners and farmers, his family home was Fröå, a copper mining village in western Jämtland, just over the mountains from Trondheim. These places play a role in “A Child’s Christmas in Sweden and Other Memories.” Anderson earned his Ph.D. at the University of Oregon and served as a professor and college dean at Cleveland State University. The author of some fifty articles and seven other books, his field of study was medieval literature. Retiring in Concord, North Carolina, his interest turned modern in “Friendly Fire in the Literature of War” and “Postmodern Artistry in Medievalist Fiction.” His lifelong interest in family history is expressed in an edition of the Civil War diary of William Biss, Sixteenth Wisconsin Infantry, Pioneer Corps (in press), and in the current collection of texts translated from the Swedish.
Earl Anderson writes, “When I was ten and my brother Stan was nine, our family moved to a farm that my parents bought from our father’s best friend, Mel Soneson, who was then a theology professor at North Park College in Chicago. The farm was strictly not a ‘home’. It was carved out of forest land that Nels Soneson, a ‘Free Church’ Swedish pastor, bought from the Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railroad in the 1930s.”
Published by Page Publishing, Earl Anderson’s works take readers through these captivating stories, allowing them to experience these memories for themselves.
Readers who wish to experience this engaging work can purchase “A Child’s Christmas in Sweden and Other Memories” in bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes Store, Amazon, Google Play or Barnes and Noble.
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