The Rooster House My Ukrainian Family Story, a Memoir

Victoria Belim, Amrita Acharia

eAudio - 2023

A timely and deeply moving story of family, history, and Ukraine 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 violence. 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. Victoria, by then an American citizen living in Brussels, felt she had to go back. She had to spend time with her aging grandmother and her cousin Dima. She h...ad to unravel a family mystery spanning several generations. And she needed to understand how a century of her country's tragic history had changed the course of their lives. The Rooster House is a beautifully written memoir of a family, a country's past, and... more