Lindström, Letters from an Immigrant Teenager - Letters from Varpu in Canada to Kaisa in Finland, 1963-1965

This unique collection of letters written by Varpu Lindström in Canada to her friend Kaisa Lindberg in Finland between 1963 and 1965 chronicles the immigration experience from the perspective of a teenage girl. The unedited and unaltered letters are drenched in raw emotion and reflect in the most honest way the difficulties plaguing a young immigrant's life. The letters, which are rendered in the original Finnish as well as in English translation, exude constant longing for Finland, loneliness...