Fiction
ISBN: 0-89924-044-5
Paper: $11.00

Set against the cold, natural beauty of Michigan's Upper Penninsula, Bone Soup and a Lapland Wizard is the tale of two retired loggers: Rakko, the irascible bachelor-part wizard, it seems, and part madman- and his friend Paavo, old before his years and struggling with his love for his wife and adopted son. To save his friend, Rakko devises a plan to return to Finland. They set sail across Lake Superior in a makeshift Viking whaler.

Told in the terse, lyric style of the Scandanavian masters, Bone Soup and a Lapland Wizard is the story of conflict between the Old World and the New, the mythic and the modern.