The Lost Year
Katherine Marsh
During the COVID-19 pandemic, thirteen-year-old Matthew’s Ukrainian American great-grandmother comes to live with his family. Matthew finds letters that cousins exchanged during the famine in 1930s Ukraine. The discovery changes both his connection with his great-grandmother, known as GG, and his understanding of her life and identity. The book links a family secret to the Holodomor, the famine that devastated Soviet Ukraine.
This book appears on 5 reading lists across 2 editions from 5 organizations.
