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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]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 VERZEMNIEKS    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY VERZEMNIEKS    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. VERZEMNIEKS, I.    Storage
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B VERZEMNIEKS, INARA    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Biography  B-VERZEMNIEKS VER    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.891 VER    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  B VERZEMNIEKS, I.    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  947.96 VER    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B VERZEMNIEKS INARA V    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Biographies  BIOG VERZEMNIEKS, INARA    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 282 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-282)
Summary Journeying back to the remote Latvian village where her family broke apart, the author comes to know her grandmother's sister, Ausma, and the trauma of her exile to Siberia under Stalin, while reconstructing her grandmother Livija's survival through her years as a refugee.
"'It's long been assumed of this region, where my grandmother was born, ...that at some point each year the dead will come home,' Inara Verzemnieks writes in this heartrending story of war, exile, and reconnection. Her grandmother's stories recalled one true home: the family farm left behind in Latvia during the Second World War. There, her grandmother Livija and her great-aunt, Ausma, were separated. Livija fled the fighting to become a refugee; Ausma was exiled to Siberia under Stalin: the sisters would not see each other again for more than fifty years. Raised by her grandparents in Washington State, Inara grew up among expatriates, scattering smuggled Latvian sand over the coffins of the dead, singing folk songs about a land she had never visited. In a box of her grandmother's belongings, Inara discovers the scarf Livija wore when she left home. This tangible remnant of the past points the way back to the remote village where her family broke apart. In Latvia, Inara comes to know Ausma, her family, their land and its stories, and there pieces together Livija's survival through years as a refugee. Weaving together these two parts of the family story in spellbinding, lyrical prose, Verzemnieks gives us a profound and cathartic account of love, loss, and survival."--Jacket.
Subject Verzemnieks, Inara.
Verzemnieks, Inara -- Family.
Latvian Americans -- Biography.
Latvian Americans -- Social life and customs.
Refugees -- Washington (State) -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Latvia.
Latvians -- Biography.
Farm life -- Latvia.
Latvia -- Social conditions.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics.
HISTORY / Military / World War II.
Immigrants -- United States -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 9780393245110 (hardcover)
039324511X (hardcover)
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