Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Swedish Reading Club: Punished (Straff) by Ann-Helén Laestadius
7 PM
Our meeting will be held online using Zoom. For more information, including the link to join the meeting, please email info@sahswm.org.
From the internationally bestselling author of the novel Stolen comes a harrowing story—inspired by true events—of five Indigenous children forced to attend a government-run boarding school in 1950s Sweden, revealing the emotional scars they carry thirty years later.
“A heartrending narrative of five Indigenous Sámi children forcibly sent to boarding school by the Swedish state in the 1950s. . . .This moving tale shines an important spotlight on a story little-known to most American readers.”
—Publishers Weekly
You can buy the book online at Schuler’s, or at a 20% discount in the store.