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Author Verzemnieks, Inara, author.

Title Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe / Inara Verzemnieks.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.
Edition First edition.

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Location Call Number Status
 Woodbridge Adult Biography   B VERZEMNIEKS    AVAILABLE
Description 282 pages ; 22 cm
Content text
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-282).
Summary "A haunting, luminous reckoning with exile and loss. Raised by her Latvian grandparents in Washington State, Inara Verzemnieks grew up among expatriates, scattering smuggled Latvian sand over the coffins of the dead, singing folk songs with other childrenabout a land none of them had visited. Her grandmother's stories re-created in vivid, nostalgic detail the family farm she'd left behind in a borderland violently contested during the Second World War. In the fighting, her grandmother Livija and her grandmother's sister, Ausma, were separated and would not see each other again for more than fifty years. Journeying back to the remote village where her family broke apart, Inara comes to know Ausma and the trauma of her exile to Siberia under Stalin, whilereconstructing Livija's survival through her years as a refugee. In bringing together these two sides of the family story, Inara honors both sisters in a deeply cathartic and moving account of loss, survival, resilience, and love."--Provided by publisher.
Subject Verzemnieks, Inara -- Family.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Latvia.
Refugees -- Latvia -- Biography.
Latvian Americans -- Biography.
Immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 9780393245110
039324511X