What would happen if you built one of the world's most advanced
societies inside a forest--and strove to make women full partners in
power?
After living for twenty-five years in New York, Naomi Moriyama moved
with her husband and co-author William Doyle and their seven-year-old
child to the vast forest of Finland's Karelia, a mysterious region on
the Russian border that helped inspire J.R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth
fantasies.
She entered a life-altering zone of tranquility, peace, and beauty, the
spiritual heart of the nation ranked as the happiest nation on Earth,
with among the world's most empowered women.
Finland is also the country with cleanest air and water and the best
schools, a country where motherhood and fatherhood are championed by
law, childhood is revered, schoolchildren are required to play outdoors
multiple times a day, and trains contain mini-libraries and
mini-playgrounds for children to enjoy.
It was here in the Karelian forest that Naomi found a culinary symphony
of succulent wild edibles, herbs, berries, mushrooms and fish, all
freshly plucked from the moss-carpeted forest and sparkling clear
streams.
She also found something that changed her life--a tribe of invincible
women who became her soul-sisters.
As an idyllic summer and fall gave way to a sub-Arctic winter of
mind-bending darkness and cold, Naomi faced her fears and her future.
Over the course of six unforgettable months with her family and her new
"sisters", she found her life transformed, and discovered the power that
lay within her all along.
Then she tried to leave. But she kept coming back.
Come, take a journey deep into Europe's most distant, magical
wilderness, and join the sisterhood of the enchanted forest.
