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In Cod We Trust: Living The Norwegian Dream (2008)

by Eric Dregni(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0816656231 (ISBN13: 9780816656233)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Univ Of Minnesota Press

review 1: This book is a delightful treatise about why Norwegian-Americans call themselves simply "Norwegian", even after 4 generations since immigrating. Dregni spent a year researching and chronicling both Norwegian history and current culture as a Fulbright Fellow on both sides of the ocean.I think my father would have loved it, and I'm considering sending a copy to my former college roomate, who still lives in Norway.
review 2: I might be being hard on this book, with the 2 star review... but it didn't do a lot for me. I didn't feel transported into the Norwegian experience, didn't feel a great deal of insight into the immigrant life... Dregni's writing style is fairly detached, probably deliberately light and amusing, but the absence of any real meditation on what ... moreit all means left me with... not much. I would have appreciated more scholarship rather than the superficial travelogue. less

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