The Sisterhood of the Enchanted Forest: Sustenance, Wisdom, and Awakening in Finland's Karelia

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What would happen if you built one of the worlds most advanced societies inside a forestand 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. Tolkiens 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 lifea 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.

Author Bio

Naomi Moriyamagrew up in Japan and moved to Manhattan in her twenties. She is a U.S.-Japan marketing professional. She has coauthored three non-fiction books on traditional Japanese home-cooked meals and their health benefits with her husband William Doyle, and has been a judge on The Food Networks acclaimedIron Chef America, and a featured guest onThe Today Show,The View, andDr.Oz .

William Doyle grew up in New York City and has produced TV programs for HBO, PBS, the History Channel, and A&E. Since 2015 he has served a Fulbright Scholar and scholar-in-residence at the University of Eastern Finland, as a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Resident Fellow, and as advisor to the Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland. His 2019 book Let the Children Play was co-authored with Pasi Sahlberg.