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\"Hamn\u00f8y,

Hamn\u00f8y, Norway. Photo courtesy of Kym Ellis<\/p><\/div>\n

Going to Iceland: I’ve bought tickets to Iceland and Norway for a trip in early September. That’s factually incorrect. Mr. Visa bought them for me. I hope someday to pay him back.<\/p>\n

(The tickets for going to Iceland and Norway were surprisingly affordable. According to the New York Times<\/a>, it’s once you arrive in Oslo, Norway that the money starts to hemorrhage from your pockets.)<\/p>\n

The baby<\/a> is going to Iceland too.<\/p>\n

I would be worrying, already, about the logistics of air travel with an almost two-year-old<\/a>, how I’ll manage to get all the interviews I need to get done done, the cold, the jet lag, and the fact that I don’t speak a word of Icelandic or Norwegian, but it’s been a sad week:<\/p>\n

? We found out that James’s aunt’s cancer has returned in full force and that one of her lungs has collapsed;<\/p>\n

? I heard from my dear friend Holly that her three-year-old<\/a> will have to go under general anesthesia to have her decaying front teeth fixed, and also will need to be scheduled for another heart surgery<\/a> soon.<\/p>\n

? My good friend was sent back to jail on a non-specific parole violation with no explanation, put on ice in a cell and told nothing.<\/p>\n

Then I started reading the summer<\/a> New Yorker<\/em> issue in which novelist Alexandar Hemon describes how doctors discover a cancerous tumor in his 9-month-old’s brain.<\/p>\n

In light of this, my ridiculous worries (that my house won’t be clean enough for my aunt and Nobel-prize-winning uncle<\/a> who are coming for dinner tonight, visiting from Brookline, that I won’t be able to fit enough cloth diapers<\/a> in my carry-on for the two-week trip) seem so trivial and selfish that I won’t allow myself to indulge in them.<\/p>\n

That was a long aside.\u00a0The point is the baby and I are\u00a0going to Iceland<\/a>.\u00a0And Norway.<\/p>\n

I’ll be interviewing obstetricians and midwives and breastfeeding advocates and government officials to investigate why and how these countries have such positive maternal and fetal outcomes (unlike in the United States).<\/p>\n

In Norway I’ll also visit the lab of one of the country’s best cell biologists, Morton Laane, and together we’ll look under a microscope at human breast milk and he’ll help me understand what we see.<\/p>\n

Morten’s a photography buff and offered to take pictures, and also to film our microscopic encounters (you can see one of his photographs at #7 in this post<\/a>). My publisher is hoping to include some digital backstory in the e-version of the book!<\/p>\n

But I know embarrassingly little about each country and need a crash course.\u00a0Watching movies is one of my favorite ways to get a window into a culture.<\/p>\n

My friend Sandy<\/a> recommended Elling, which looks delightful, but is not available on live-streaming.<\/p>\n

So last night James and I watched Jar City<\/em>, an Icelandic whodunit about a very nasty man found murdered in his very nasty bottom-floor apartment.<\/p>\n

Jar City<\/em> starts with a heartbreaking scene in the hospital where a young girl is sick.<\/p>\n

Her father sits by her bedside and sings her a lullaby.\u00a0Then the movie begins to follow the lonely detective, Ingvar Eggert Sigur\u00f0sson, investigating the murder.<\/p>\n

We see Ingvar Eggert Sigur\u00f0sson eating the eyeball of a sheep with a Swiss Army knife, refusing to give his adult daughter money for drugs, and slowly piecing together the clues about the murder of a man that no one was sorry to see dead.<\/p>\n

Dark as it was, I enjoyed every minute of the movie, and am looking forward to watching more.<\/p>\n

Do you think movies are a good way to learn about other people? Do you have favorite foreign films that help you better understand other cultures? Any suggestions of good Icelandic or Norwegian movies or books?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Published: June 28, 2011
\nUpdated: January 18, 2020<\/p>\n

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