
Destination: Finland
Book: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
A Journey into the Finnish Summer
by guest author, Michele Simeon
Swedish-speaking Finnish writer Tove Jansson has been called the “laureate of small things” for her astounding ability to capture beauty, darkness, and meaning in deceptively simple details. Jansson’s novel The Summer Book follows an elderly woman and her granddaughter, Sophia, over the course of many summer stays on a remote, Finnish island. Continue reading A Summer Book (Finland)