Bergen Spring

This exquisitely crafted debut novel, Bergen Spring, set in the aftermath of the tumultuous 1960s, explores the personal-and universal-struggle of the human spirit to manifest itself truthfully.

Twenty-year-old Erik Hellberg dreams of leaving his small Midwestern town and traveling to Norway, the land of his ancestors. Grappling with self-imposed guilt over his brother's death in the Vietnam War, Erik hitchhikes across northern Europe and finds himself in the breathtakingly beautiful seaside...