On Our Way Home from the Revolution Audiobook Libro.fm

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In 2014 Sonya Bilocerkowycz is a tourist at a deadly revolution At first she is enamored with the Ukrainians idealism which reminds her of her own patriotic family But when the romantic revolution melts into a war with Russia she becomes disillusioned prompting a return home to the US and the diaspora community that raised her As the daughter of a man who studies Ukrainian dissidents for a living the granddaughter of war refugees and the greatgranddaughter of a gulag victim Bilocerkowycz has inherited a legacy of political oppression But what does it mean when she discovers a missing page from her familys survival storyone that raises questions about her own guilt

In these linked essays Bilocerkowycz invites listeners to meet a swirling cast of postSoviet characters including a Russian intelligence officer who finds Osama bin Laden a few weeks after 9/11 a Ukrainian poet whose nose gets broken by Russian separatists and a longlost relative who drives a bus into the heart of Chernobyl On Our Way Home from the Revolution muddles our easy distinctions between innocence and culpability agency and fate