You Will Feel it in the Price of Bread: A Love Letter to Ukraine
You Will Feel it in the Price of Bread: A Love Letter to Ukraine by Katya Hudson
English | February 2, 2023 | ISBN: 1739193040 | True EPUB | 128 pages | 6.7 MB
English | February 2, 2023 | ISBN: 1739193040 | True EPUB | 128 pages | 6.7 MB
Katya Hudson was at university in the UK when Russia invaded Ukraine. Cut off from her homeland and beloved Grandma Babushka Zhana she was devastated and moved to record this heartfelt memoir.
From Katya’s idyllic childhood with her siblings: holidays in Crimea and carefree days working the land at the Dacha; to the sickening impact of Putin’s invasion and its effect on Katya, her friends and family – the anxiety, fear and heartache. The desperate attempts to contact friends and ensure that loved ones are safe.this memoir vividly portrays the cruel impact of war.
Through it all bestrides Babushka, Katya’s "favorite person on earth." When she is not growing vegetables, she is reading the sexy bits from novels out loud to her granddaughter. But in this last year she has turned her hand to a recipe of a different type - Molotov cocktails - in preparation for an attack on her apartment block.
Combining prose, poetry, collage, maps and illustrations this is a truly immersive memoir – an authentic portrait of the impact of war. Powerful, and beautifully evocative, a personal memoir of family and homeland.