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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
My Estonia 2: Berry Junkies, Nordic Elves, and Real Estate Fever

My Estonia 2: Berry Junkies, Nordic Elves, and Real Estate Fever

Petrone, Justin

Paperback

Scandinavia

ISBN10: 9949907659
ISBN13: 9789949907656
Publisher: Petrone Print
Published: Feb 24 2011
Pages: 370
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.77 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
The year was 2003, the country Estonia. Great changes were blowing across this small land perched in the fringes of the north - a vote to join a union of European nations, a blizzard of Western consumerism, a feverish demand for real estate. Bankrolled by Scandinavian moneymen, it promised to draw a sheet over the corpse of the socialist economy and make everything shiny and new. While Estonia pondered its fate as a new member of the glittering West, I wrestled with my own fate as a husband and father to be, at the age of 23. I had been drawn to northern Europe by its gem-like allure but now had to deal with the permanence of my decisions. I was being pulled apart, tugged back and forth between this land of forest people who were hard to befriend and the needs of my own big Italian-American family. As the days grew crushingly short and the polar night set in, a tense debate between destiny and free will stormed within me. Was this what I had wanted?

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