Zoya's Gift (eBook)

Building a Bridge to a Global Family | A Memoir

Gail McCormick (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
336 Seiten
She Writes Press (Verlag)
978-1-64742-683-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Still recovering from the heartbreak of infertility, memoirist Gail McCormick and her husband volunteer to host two Children of Chernobyl for a summer reprieve from radiation exposure. Fate pairs the Seattle couple with eight-year-old Ukrainian twin sisters from Belarusand rekindles Gail's childhood dream to build a bridge of peace between the US and the former Soviet Union.Over four summers of mayhem and magic with the twins, a deep relationship takes root. When the girls age out of the program that brought them to Seattle, Gail confronts her Cold War fears and travels with her husband to reunite with them in Ukraine and Belarus. On this soul-making trip to a land of unspeakable loss, she celebrates life in the homes of an accordion-playing Chernobyl hero and a barefooted babushka who distills her own vodka, andbehind the remnants of the Iron Curtainfinds her place as an honorary mother and babushka in a four-generation family of former Soviets. Poignant and culturally rich, her narrative transports readers to storied cities, villages, and dachas from Kyiv to Minsk.Written with reverence, insight, humor, and hope, Zoya's Gift illuminates the complexities, joys, and importance of reaching across political, class, and cultural divides.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.6.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Alternative family • Belarus travel and culture • Childless family story • Creating a life with meaning • Friendship across cultures • Growing up in the Cold War • healing from loss • Infertility and fertility struggles • Multiple Chemical Sensitivity • Otherhood • People with environmental illness • Personal transformation memoir • Senior volunteers • Travel former Soviet Union • Ukraine travel and culture • Volunteers for peace • Women peacemakers • women without children
• ISBN-10: 1-64742-683-9 / 1647426839
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64742-683-5 / 9781647426835