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Loading... Honey and Ashes: A Story of Family (1998)by Janice Kulyk Keefer
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. i understand the 1 rating. the book skips around in time which is not my favourite writing style and it's sometimes hard to keep the female characters straight. she springs a surprise on us right at the end and doesn't talk about it much. so she is an annoying writer but her story is pretty good. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Janice Kulyk Keefer was born in Canada, a country that for her immigrant family meant a land as free as the future itself. But she was also born into the history of her family's homeland, receiving both the gift and the burden of a past that often seems "an equal spill of beauty and blood". Now she has set out to build a bridge of words between contemporary Canada and the ancient village of Staromischyna, once part of Poland, now in Ukraine.Honey and Ashes is novel-like in its sweep of personal and public history, and its ability to draw us into the complex mysteries of family. It moves from an extraordinary wealth of stories about life in Staromischyna and Depression-era Toronto, to an absorbing account of how the complex, troubled histories of Poland and Ukraine shadowed these stories, and it ends with a difficult journey back to the actual place where the stories began. It is a breathtaking book that will touch all those who feel compelled to search the landscape of memory for a glimpse of their true selves. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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