02133cam a2200361 i 4500 876374442 TxGeo 20230629120000.0 230614s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023934102 9781419767852 hbk. 1419767852 hbk. TxGeo rda Belim, Victoria, author. Rooster House. The rooster house : a Ukrainian family story / Victoria Belim. Rooster house. Rooster house, The : my Ukrainian family story. New York, NY : Abrams Press, 2023. ©2023. xiv, 286 pages : illustrations (black and white) maps, genealogical tables ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A memoir"--Cover. "In 2014, the landmarks of Victoria Belim's personal geography were plunged into tumult at the hands of Russia. Her hometown Kyiv was gripped by protests and violent suppression. Crimea, where she'd once been sent to school to avoid radiation from the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, was invaded. Kharkiv, where her grandmother Valentina studied economics and fell in love; Donetsk, where her father once worked; and Mariupol, where she and her mother bought a cherry tree for Valentina's garden all became battlegrounds. A naturalized American citizen then living in Brussels, Belim felt she had to go back. She had to spend time with her aging grandmother and her cousin Dima. She had to unravel a family mystery spanning several generations. And she needed to understand how her country's tragic history of communist revolution, civil war, famine, world war, totalitarianism, and fraught independence had changed the course of their lives"-- Provided by publisher. 20230713. Belim, Victoria Family. Ukraine. Ukraine. History 20th century. Biographies. Autobiographies. QS5