We are reading The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukraine Famine by Katherine Marsh. Copies of the book are available at the library. The Book Club is held at the Draper Senior Center.
This month, we are discussing The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukraine Famine by Katherine Marsh.
Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to his stress and isolation.
But when Matthew finds a tattered black-and-white photo in his great-grandmother’s belongings, he discovers a clue to a hidden chapter of her past, one that will lead to a life-shattering family secret. Set in alternating timelines that connect the present-day to the 1930s and the US to the USSR, Katherine Marsh’s latest novel sheds fresh light on the Holodomor – the horrific famine that killed millions of Ukrainians, and which the Soviet government covered up for decades.
The Book Club meets on the Second Monday of each month from 12:00 to 1:00 pm at the Draper Senior Center.
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If you would like to participate in the book club, contact Linda Gee at lgee@slcolibrary.org. All adults are welcome.
