The Russian Daughter
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With the Czarist empire in turmoil, a young Mennonite couple in what is now Ukraine adopt a Russian baby. This historical novel explores themes of belonging, responsibility, and the places we call home.
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I have longed for Klassen to say more about those post-revolution "Russian" Mennonite settlements because, besides having had access to her own parents' recollections of those times, she is simply so very good at giving expression to Mennonite communal, family, and personal experience of that era. In The Russian Daughter, informed by her wide, intimate knowledge of the people and places of that time, she has written the novel I have long hoped she would write....Everything about this work is satisfying: the story itself, the even tone, the beautifully managed pace and rhythm of the prose, and the distinctive and memorable characters. -- Hildi Froese Tiessen
The setting and historical circumstances -- the ruptures of early 20th century Russia -- of Sarah Klassen's new novel The Russian Daughter may feel familiar to many, especially Mennonite readers, but there's something fresh and newly true and deeply affecting in this story. Suffused with longing, silences, secrets, and struggle, but courage and tender resilience as well.-- Dora Dueck
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