When Megan Buskey's grandmother Anna dies in Cleveland in 2013, Megan is compelled in her grief to uncover and document her grandmother's life as a native of Ukraine. A Ukrainian American, Buskey returns to her family's homeland and enlists her relatives there to help her in her quest--and discovers much more than she expected. The result is an extraordinary journey that traces one woman's story across Ukraine's difficult twentieth century, from a Galician village emerging from serfdom, to the "bloodlands" of Eastern Europe during World War II, to the Siberian hinterlands where Anna spent almost two decades in exile before receiving the rare opportunity to emigrate from the Soviet Union in the 1960s. In the course of her research, Megan encounters essential and sometimes disturbing aspects of recent Ukrainian history, such as Nazi collaboration, the rise and persistence of Ukrainian nationalism, and the shattering impact of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022. Yet her wide-ranging inquiries keep leading her back to universal questions: What does family mean? How can you forge connections between generations that span different cultures, times, and places? And, perhaps most hauntingly, how can you best remember a complicated past that is at once foreign and personal?

Formato	Tapa suave
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Ibidem Press
Fecha de Publicación	2023-02-20
Dimensiones	8.2" x 5.8" x 0.6" pulgadas
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No

Megan Buskey is a nonfiction writer who has contributed to The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, The New Republic, National Public Radio's All Things Considered, and other outlets. A former Fulbright Fellow to Ukraine, she has been studying and writing about the country for two decades. Buskey lives in New York City.