Northern Reflections: A Lighthearted Account of "Growing up North"

by Jerry Harju, Craig MacIntosh, Pat Green (Editor)

Northern Reflection is a collection of wild, wacky, and nostalgic short stories based on the author Jerry Harju's childhood in Upper Michigan in the 1940's. His youthful adventures include standing on the railroad tracks to play chicken with an oncoming ore train, riding on a fire truck to a blaze at his own house, and the difficulties of picking up girls in the midst of a frigid Michigan winter.

123 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1999

Reviews

[Sarah Rigg · Rating 3 out of 5]

Harju grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the 1930s and 1940s, and I grew up there in the 1970s and 1980s. This book is one of several collections of his memoirs. The stories are fun; reading the book is like listening to your grandfather or great uncle telling stories of their youth. My favorite story involved bowling and "The Lappland Curse."

[Stephanie Vaughn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Can't wait to start his second book in this series of short stories. Very funread!