Name: The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (National Book Award Finalist)
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Author: Katherine Marsh
ISBN: 9781250909305

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The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (National Book Award Finalist)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Katherine Marsh

Publisher

Square Fish

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.4 x 13.0 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781250909305

Synopsis "The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (National Book Award Finalist)"

*A National Book Award Finalist*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. An incredibly timely, page-turning story of family, survival, and sacrifice, inspired by Marsh's own family history, The Lost Year is perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys' Between Shades of Gray and Alan Gratz's Refugee.

Katherine Marsh

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Katherine Marsh was born in Kingston, New York. An only child, she grew up devouring books and listening to family stories of immigration: three of her four grandparents arrived in the United States as immigrants, one of them at just seventeen years old. After graduating with a degree in English Literature from Yale, she worked for a year as a teacher in a high school, before starting her career as a journalist, which has led her to collaborate with media such as Rolling Stone, The Washington City Paper, and The New Republic. She is the author of several children's and young adult books, such as The Night Tourist, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery Novel; Jepp, Who Defied the Stars, and The Door by the Staircase. Her latest novel, A Place in the World, was inspired by her experience living three years in Brussels with her family. She currently resides in Washington D.C., along with her husband, two children, two cats, and three chickens.

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