Luba lives with her parents in a Chicago neighborhood full of others like themselves-immigrants from Ukraine. Her parents want only two things: to enjoy a new life in America and to hold on to the old ways-the church, the language, the traditions-of...
Who deserves a miracle? Perhaps the following characters in THE DAYS OF MIRACLE AND WONDER: A relentless spy who shadows an Elvis impersonator in 1950s Kyiv…A destitute Olympic swimmer who marries an abusive man for his pool…A fell...
Early on an April Saturday in 1986 in a farm village in Ukraine, widow Marusia Petrenko and her family awake to a day of traditional wedding preparations. Marusia bakes her famous wedding bread-a korovai-in the communal village oven to take to her ne...