![]() ![]() ![]() Desperate, Nyl and Alice come up with an audacious plan that could save both of them - and their community. Something is very wrong, and Alice is determined to help. until they realize that the people suffering the most are all ethnically Ukrainian, like Nyl. Alice has recently arrived from Canada with her father, who is here to work for the Soviets. ![]() but a murderous plan leading all the way to Stalin. On top of bad harvests and a harsh winter, conditions worsen until it's clear the lack of food is not just chance. Ever since the Soviet dictator, Stalin, started to take control of farms like the one Nyl's family lives on, there is less and less food to go around. Ukrainian Canadian author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch tells a gripping story of how the Soviet Union starved the Ukrainian people in the 1930s - and of their determination to overcome. ![]()
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