From Katya's idyllic childhood with her siblings: holidays in Crimea and carefree days working the land at the Dacha; to the sickening impact of Putin's invasion and its effect on Katya, her friends and family - the anxiety, fear and heartache. The desperate attempts to contact friends and ensure that loved ones are safe.this memoir vividly portrays the cruel impact of war.
Through it all bestrides Babushka, Katya's "favorite person on earth." When she is not growing vegetables, she is reading the sexy bits from novels out loud to her granddaughter. But in this last year she has turned her hand to a recipe of a different type - Molotov cocktails - in preparation for an attack on her apartment block.
Combining prose, poetry, collage, maps and illustrations this is a truly immersive memoir - an authentic portrait of the impact of war. Powerful, and beautifully evocative, a personal memoir of family and homeland.