02120cam a2200289 i 4500 884830843 TxAuBib 20230727120000.0 230614s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2023021723 9781419767852 HRD 28.00 1419767852 HRD 28.00 TxAuBib rda Belim, Victoria, author Rooster House. The rooster house [BOOK] : a Ukrainian family memoir / Victoria Belim. New York : Abrams Press, 2023. xiv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. The Rooster House is a memoir of a family, a country’s past, and its dangerous present. It is about parents and children, true believers and victims, gardens and art, secrets and tragedy. Provided by publisher. 20230727. Belim, Victoria Family. Biographies. Ukraine Biography. Ukraine History 20th century.