Join Anderson’s Bookshop for an author event and signing line with critically acclaimed author Katherine Marsh to celebrate the release of her new middle grade historical fiction novel, THE LOST YEAR: A SURVIVAL STORY OF THE UKRANIAN FAMINE.
More about THE LOST YEAR:
From the author of Nowhere Boy - called “a resistance novel for our times” by The New York Times - comes a brilliant middle-grade survival story that traces a harrowing family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine that devastated Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s.
Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation.
But when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother’s belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one that will lead to a life-shattering family secret. Set in alternating timelines that connect the present-day to the 1930s and the US to the USSR, Katherine Marsh’s latest novel sheds fresh light on the Holodomor – the horrific famine that killed millions of Ukrainians, and which the Soviet government covered up for decades.
In cooperation with the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America - Illinois Branch and the Holodomor Descendants Network.
Tickets: $0 - Admission only; $21 - Book + Admission
Katherine will give a short presentation, take audience questions, and have a signing line.
A portion of the event proceeds will be donated for the purchase of generators to provide heat and light in Ukraine.
2023/01/25 - 2023/01/25
Anderson's Bookshop Downers Grove
5112 Main St., Downers Grove, IL 60515
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