After losing her grandmother Anna in 2013, Megan Buskey went on a journey to better understand her family lineage. That journey took her all the way from Cleveland, to Ukraine and Eastern Europe, exploring a lifetime of hardship, exile and new beginnings.
Buskey’s decade of work turned into her debut book, "Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet," released on Ibidem Press on Monday, Feb. 20.
The book connects Anna’s story and the country’s longtime political tenuousness to current events. "Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet" was published on Feb. 20: about one year after Russia invaded Ukraine, escalating the Russo-Ukrainian war that started in 2014.
“It’s funny; we actually picked February 2023 before the invasion started,” Buskey says. “But now I think it’s coming at a good point, in terms of being at a natural inflection point of it, with the anniversary of the war starting. I think it’s a good opportunity to give people a means by which to know Ukraine in a different way than they’ve known it over the pa...
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