Sojourner in a Foreign Land: A Memoir - Paperback

by Flemming Oppenhagen Behrend (Author)

Sojourner in a Foreign Land is a personal story about immigration, the search for spiritual belonging, sexual and gender identity, and how childhood trauma influences a human life. As a Scandinavian immigrant, I was blessed with privileges other ethnic groups did not have. Still, it was a struggle to start from the bottom. The book also describes life in Copenhagen, Denmark, in the fifties and sixties, and what it means to leave your culture and traditions behind.

Author Biography

Flemming Oppenhagen Behrend has dual Danish and American citizenship. He is an Archetypal Pattern Analyst who graduated from the Assisi Institute in 2016, focusing on Jungian dream analysis and archetypal pattern studies. In 2005, he published his first book: 78RPM, the Record of a Family, stories from his parents and grandparents' turbulent times through two world wars. Sojourner in a Foreign Land is the memoir about his life growing up in Copenhagen, Denmark and immigrating first to Germany and later to the United States which has been a home away from home since 1980.