Luba lives with her parents in a Chicago neighborhood full of others like themselves-immigrants from Ukraine. Her parents want only two things: to enjoy a new life in America and to hold on to the old ways-the church, the language, the traditions-of...
Who deserves a miracle? Perhaps the following characters in THE DAYS OF MIRACLE AND WONDER: A relentless spy who shadows an Elvis impersonator in 1950s Kyiv…A destitute Olympic swimmer who marries an abusive man for his pool…A fell...
"Explores the aftermath of the 1986 nuclear explosion in Chernobyl through the lives of inhabitants of a tiny Ukrainian village . . . poignant and inspiring." -- Library Journal Early on an April Saturday in 1986 in a farm village in Ukraine, w...