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Among the Living and the Dead - A Tale of Exile and Homecoming (Paperback)
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Among the Living and the Dead - A Tale of Exile and Homecoming (Paperback)
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"It's long been assumed of the region where my grandmother was
born...that at some point each year the dead will come home," Inara
Verzemnieks writes in this exquisite story of war, exile, and
reconnection. Her grandmother's stories recalled one true home: the
family farm left behind in Latvia, where, during WWII, her
grandmother Livija and her grandmother's sister, Ausma, were
separated. They would not see each other again for more than 50
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. When Inara discovers the scarf Livija wore when she left
home, in a box of her grandmother's belongings, this tangible
remnant of the past points the way back to the remote village where
her family broke apart. There it is said the suspend their exile
once a year for a pilgrimage through forests and fields to the
homes they left behind. Coming to know Ausma and the trauma of her
exile to Siberia under Stalin, Inara pieces together Livija's
survival through years as a refugee. Weaving these two parts of the
family story together in spellbinding, lyrical prose, she gives us
a profound and cathartic account of loss, survival, resilience, and
love.
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