Sojourner in a Foreign Land.A Memoiraf Flemming Oppenhagen Behrend

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.
Flemming Oppenhagen Behrend grew up in Frederiksberg. Since 1980, he has lived in the United States. He graduated in 2016 from the Assisi Institute focusing on Jungian dream analysis and archetypal pattern studies. In 2005 he published his first book: 78 TPM, the Record of a Family, stories from his parents and grandparents turbulent times through two world wars. His latest book: Sojourner in a Foreign Land, is a memoir about his life growing up in Copenhagen Denmark and immigrating first to Germany and later to the United States . He lives in Olympia WA, with his wife, Silvia Ruth Behrend.