Sisterhood of the Enchanted Forest

What would happen if you built one of the world's most advanced societies inside a forest-and strove to make women full partnersin power? After living for twenty-five years in New York, NaomiMoriyama moved with her husband and co-author William Doyle and their seven-year-old child to the vast forest of Finland's Karelia, a mysteriousregion on the Russian border that helped inspire J.R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earthfantasies. She entered a life-altering zone of tranquility, peace,and beauty, the spiritual heart of the nation ranked as the happiestnation on Earth, with among the world's most empowered women. Finland is also the country with cleanest air and waterand the best schools, a country where motherhood and fatherhood arechampioned by law, childhood is revered, schoolchildren are requiredto play outdoors multiple times a day, and trains containmini-libraries and mini-playgrounds for children to enjoy. It was here in the Karelian forest that Naomi found a culinarysymphony of succulent wild edibles, herbs, berries, mushrooms andfish, all freshly plucked from the moss-carpeted forest and sparklingclear streams. She also found something that changed her life-a tribe ofinvincible women who became her soul-sisters. As an idyllic summer and fall gave way to a sub-Arcticwinter of mind-bending darkness and cold, Naomi faced her fears andher future. Over the course of six unforgettable months with herfamily and her new "sisters", she found her life transformed, anddiscovered 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, magicalwilderness, and join the sisterhood of the enchanted forest.