Melissa Cormier
Sessions in which Melissa Cormier attends
Thursday 25 April, 2024
Time Zone: (GMT-04:00) Atlantic Time (Canada)
11:45
11:45 -
13:00 |
1 hour 15 minutes
"Violence is the domain of both the rich and poor. Or so it seems in early 20th-century Ukraine during the tumult of the Russian Revolution.As anarchists, Bolsheviks, and the White Army all come and go, each claiming freedom and justice, David Bergen embeds his readers into the lives of characters connected through love, family, and loyalty. Lehn, a bookseller south of Kiev, deserts the army and writes poetry to his love back home; Sablin, an adopted Mennonite-Ukrainian stableboy, runs wi...