In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream by Eric Dregni

In Cod We Trust is one Minnesota family’s spirited excursion into Scandinavian life. Dregni and his family decided to spend a year living in Norway, but his Scandinavian roots did little to prepare him for the adventure in Trondheim, eating herring cakes, obeying the conformist Janteloven (Jante’s law), and enduring the mørketid (dark time). 

In this cross-cultural memoir, Dregni tells the hair-raising, hilarious, and sometimes poignant stories of his family’s yearlong Norwegian experiment. Among the exploits he details are staying warm in a remote grass-roofed hytte (hut), surviving a dinner of rakfisk (fermented fish) thanks to 80-proof aquavit, and identifying his great-grandfather’s house in the Lusterfjord only to find out it had been crushed by a boulder and then swept away by a river. The land of the midnight sun is far stranger than they previously thought, and their encounters show that there is much we can learn from its unique and surprising culture.

"A hilariously fun and moving read for anyone who has dreamed of returning to the Norwegian homeland." —Walter Mondale

Softcover.

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