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Yana, who becomes Jane in America, has crossed the ocean hoping to break free of her family and build a different life, yet the Bulgarian of her childhood still defines her. Between two languages, she tells the stories of three generations of women: her grandmother Eva, her mother Lilia and herself. The secret world of the adults is soaked in violence, curses and alcohol, and the women meet the daily humiliations of a patriarchal home with silence, fear and obedience. Behind them rises the Sofia of the 1990s and early 2000s, dirty and bristling but loved, the cold, hungry world of children raised in the first years of the transition. The novel is about emigration and nostalgia, about guilt handed down, and about starting a painful but understanding conversation that has waited far too long.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

326 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Bulgaria, United States

First published

2021 by Janet 45

ISBN

9786191866847 (original)