The Invention of Lefse: A Christmas Story


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Author: Larry Woiwode ISBN: 9781433527364
Publisher: Crossway Publication: September 30, 2011
Imprint: Crossway Books Language: English
Author: Larry Woiwode
ISBN: 9781433527364
Publisher: Crossway
Publication: September 30, 2011
Imprint: Crossway Books
Language: English

This story opens a window on a bare Norwegian Christmas where small, unlooked-for blessings bring new hope and beauty to the life of a struggling family.

“Mette Iversdatter’s window was a porthole on the winter sky.”  With this spare, vivid image, Larry Woiwode brings us into the simple and anxious rhythms of life for a Norwegian farm girl in the first decade of the twentieth century. Christmas Eve falls in the midst of deprivation as Mette’s family prepares to journey to her grandparents’ farm for Christmas. When her father fails to bag a big deer on the journey, they arrive, like everyone else, almost empty-handed. Yet despite frustration and disappointment, this extended family combines their meager resources to create an unexpected marvel of a meal that transforms the family’s Christmas.

Sharply observed and crisply written, Woiwode’s story throbs with truths known to human hearts in any century. He carefully renders the hesitant hopes of a child, the aching disappointments and steady perseverance of her elders, and the surprise of beauty and joy. That prayers may yet be answered—that the provision may be greater even than the promise—is a truth for Christmas and always.

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This story opens a window on a bare Norwegian Christmas where small, unlooked-for blessings bring new hope and beauty to the life of a struggling family.

“Mette Iversdatter’s window was a porthole on the winter sky.”  With this spare, vivid image, Larry Woiwode brings us into the simple and anxious rhythms of life for a Norwegian farm girl in the first decade of the twentieth century. Christmas Eve falls in the midst of deprivation as Mette’s family prepares to journey to her grandparents’ farm for Christmas. When her father fails to bag a big deer on the journey, they arrive, like everyone else, almost empty-handed. Yet despite frustration and disappointment, this extended family combines their meager resources to create an unexpected marvel of a meal that transforms the family’s Christmas.

Sharply observed and crisply written, Woiwode’s story throbs with truths known to human hearts in any century. He carefully renders the hesitant hopes of a child, the aching disappointments and steady perseverance of her elders, and the surprise of beauty and joy. That prayers may yet be answered—that the provision may be greater even than the promise—is a truth for Christmas and always.

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