About this book
In the late 1950s, fifteen-year-old Joel is anxious to leave his remote hometown in northern Sweden and sail to far-off places with his father, a former sailor, but the arrival of a letter giving news about his long-absent, nearly forgotten, mother, sends Joel and his father on a journey to Stockholm that will change their lives forever.
Subjects
Children's stories, SwedishMothers and sonsHistoryFathers and sonsSingle-parent familiesComing of ageFictionChildren's fictionVoyages and travels, fictionAdventure and adventurers, fictionJuvenile fictionTeenage boysParent and childMerchant marinersFathers and sons, fictionMothers and sons, fictionSweden, fiction