A memoir of the author's Ukrainian family history, interwoven with the country's tumultuous story.
What The Reviewers Say
Anya Yurchyshyn,
The New York Times Book Review
Absorbing.
Blake Morrison,
The Guardian (UK)
Part memoir, part detective story.
Caroline Eden,
Times Literary Supplement (UK)
Barbed by pain, this is a book as poignant as it is timely. And, like the rooster perched so precariously on the kitchen dresser in Borodyanka, it reflects the indestructible strength of the Ukrainian people, who so fiercely hold on to hope..