Hooked on Books Book Group - The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story: A Memoir by Victoria Belim

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  • Registration will close on September 24, 2025 @ 10:30am.

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We will discuss the novel The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story: A Memoir by Victoria Belim. Registration is preferred, but walk-ins are welcome. Copies of the book can be checked out at the Service Center a month prior to the discussion.

The Rooster House: My Ukrainian Family Story: A Memoir by Victoria Belim

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 and 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.

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