Adrift on the River of Love

About the Book

Grant Erikssen likes women, but he doesn’t claim to understand them. He can only chronicle his encounters, and their long-lasting effects, as he seeks to unlock their secrets. In Adrift on the River of Love, author Erik Granstrøm presents a collection of fi fteen fi ctionalized short stories as a tribute to many of the girls Grant knew as a boy, the women he met later as a Lieutenant in the army and, still later, the women he loves as a man.

In this work, covering more than sixty years, each vignette illustrates women who changed Erikssen’s life forever, as they kindled his emotions and gave him rare insights into life. Combined with the themes throughout of affection and desire, Adrift muses about unrequited love—the kind of love that, as the days dwindle down, we come to cherish most of all.

About the Author

Author Erik Granstrøm grew up in the simple, earnest days of post World War II Midwest, living and going to school in a newly emerging suburb of Minneapolis. Later, he earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the University of Minnesota, served in battle during the most difficult years of the Vietnam war (1967-68), and then started his writing career on the police beat for a Knight-Ridder newspaper in a crime-ridden town in Illinois.

Granstrøm has also authored a poetry collection and short stories about Vietnam. He lives in Minnesota and has one daughter.