Stories My Grandmothers Didn’t Tell Me by Andra Putnis (.ePUB)
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Stories My Grandmothers Didn’t Tell Me: Two women’s journeys from war-torn Europe to a new life in Australia by Andra Putnis
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Overview: When she breaks an unspoken family code not to dig too deep into the past, Andra is plunged into the bleak world of the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Latvia in World War II, and secret lives of her grandmothers.
As children, we’d sneak into Grandma’s bedroom on secret missions. Her cupboard was filled with old fur coats, strange woven folk costumes and small mountains of glowing amber. We were half-scared, made breathless by our discoveries, but knew we hadn’t seen it all, hadn’t understood what was really hidden there.
Teenage Aline is separated from her parents and sent to serve in Germany’s war-time labor force. With the much-feared Soviet army on her doorstep, pregnant Milda embarks on a desperate winter escape with her young son. They face heart-wrenching decisions and endure years of hardship before finally voyaging to Australia. Among the tight-knit Latvian migrant community, Aline and Milda forge new lives. But even there, reminders of wartime scandal and grief threaten to drag them under.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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