| On Our Way Home from the Revolution: Reflections on Ukraine Contributor(s): Bilocerkowycz, Sonya (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814255434 ISBN-13: 9780814255438 Publisher: Mad Creek Books OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Collections | Russian & Former Soviet Union |
| Dewey: 814.6 |
| LCCN: 2019010847 |
| Series: 21st Century Essays |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.65 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In 2014 Sonya Bilocerkowycz is a tourist at a deadly revolution. At first she is enamored with the Ukrainians' idealism, which reminds her of her own patriotic family. But when the romantic revolution melts into a war with Russia, she becomes disillusioned, prompting a return home to the US and the diaspora community that raised her. As the daughter of a man who studies Ukrainian dissidents for a living, the granddaughter of war refugees, and the great-granddaughter of a gulag victim, Bilocerkowycz has inherited a legacy of political oppression. But what does it mean when she discovers a missing page from her family's survival story-one that raises questions about her own guilt? In these linked essays, Bilocerkowycz invites readers to meet a swirling cast of post-Soviet characters, including a Russian intelligence officer who finds Osama bin Laden a few weeks after 9/11; a Ukrainian poet whose nose gets broken by Russian separatists; and a long-lost relative who drives a bus into the heart of Chernobyl. On Our Way Home from the Revolution muddles our easy distinctions between innocence and culpability, agency and fate. |