Impressions of Arvo Laurila
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Author: Lauri Anderson
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"Lauri Anderson's incredibly colorful Finnish immigrants and their children are well drawn, believable, and sympathetic, but sadly comical. They carry assimilation uneasily in their lives, like bulky boxes in a backpack."
– Jack Jobst, Michigan Technological University
"Anderson's Finnish characters have curmudgeonly wit and dry humor and are lovingly described in exacting detail. The work is a pastiche weaving together past and present, near and distant. The world of his characters is complex and rich but full of bad luck. Misfortune is a source of bitterness and loss that bonds the characters."
– Beth L. Virtanen, the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez