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050 00 E184.L4 |bV47 2017
100 1  Verzemnieks, Inara, |eauthor.
245 10 Among the living and the dead : |ba tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe / |cInara Verzemnieks.
250    First edition.
264  1 New York : |bW.W. Norton & Company, |c[2017]
300    282 pages ; |c22 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-282).
520    "'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.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
600 10 Verzemnieks, Inara.
600 10 Verzemnieks, Inara |xFamily.
650  0 Latvian Americans |vBiography.
650  0 Latvian Americans |xSocial life and customs.
650  0 Refugees |zWashington (State) |vBiography.
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |xRefugees |zLatvia.
650  0 Latvians |vBiography.
650  0 Farm life |zLatvia.
651  0 Latvia |xSocial conditions.
655  7 Autobiographies. |2lcgft
852 0   |bstacks |hE184.L4 |iV47 2017