Author Spotlight: Kat Karpenko, The Photograph 1930’s Ukrainian Terror Famine Saturday,

Join us for a special reading by local author, Kat Karpenko. The Photograph is an historical novel about a Ukrainian family dealing with Holodomor, the terror-famine of 1932-33. The Photograph is a novel based on a photograph of my grandparents’ departure from Ukraine in 1928 when the family gathered to say goodbye. I do not know what happened to the 2 brothers and 4 sisters in the photo so I created a story about the departure and about what might have happened to these people using facts from historical research and from survivors’ accounts of the genocide orchestrated by Stalin known as Holodomor, death by starvation. This little-known history explains much about what is happening in Ukraine today. The novel explains much about the strong will to survive of the Ukrainian people.

Bridgewater Library, August 17, 11 – 1 pm