Rachel Baack
Summary: Pasha is a Ukrainian language teacher who has seen (but attempted to distance himself from the reality of) the impacts of the war going on in his homeland. Now, as battle lines shift, Pasha must travel into the heart of the fighting to retrieve his thirteen-year-old nephew, Sasha, from the orphanage in a now-occupied city.
This novel takes place over the course of just three days as Pasha and the other civilians with whom he finds himself traveling face dangers of every kind on their journeys, and it provides excellent insight into the impacts of war—at turns heartbreakingly predictable and utterly shocking—on a country’s civilian population.
Summary: Pasha is a Ukrainian language teacher who has seen (but attempted to distance himself from the reality of) the impacts of the war going on in his homeland. Now, as battle lines shift, Pasha must travel into the heart of the fighting to retrieve his thirteen-year-old nephew, Sasha, from the orphanage in a now-occupied city.
This novel takes place over the course of just three days as Pasha and the other civilians with whom he finds himself traveling face dangers of every kind on their journeys, and it provides excellent insight into the impacts of war—at turns heartbreakingly predictable and utterly shocking—on a country’s civilian population.