“We’re so glad to have you back in Petrograd, dear. “Iskra? Iskra? Like a box of matches? Akh, this revolution, it doesn’t know when to stop!” The baby just kept sleeping. “Sweet adorable thing!” As if Iskra were her own granddaughter.
“Yours? It can’t be! Oh, this precious child! Let me hold her. Such a warm welcome, and the shock when she saw Iskra in Shusha’s arms. She still smelled of chicken, though I couldn’t imagine they’d had a chicken in years. She was thinner and more lined than last year, more bowed, but how happy she was to see me! She hurried to put her sack on the table and embrace me.
It was dark when Sofia Yakovlevna returned from the queues, a little frail, her sack heavy with provisions. Shusha added, “Exclusive to the Yellow Emperor.”
How was it that theirs had? The samovar boiled and Dunya made tea. My family had not survived the stresses of the revolution. Educated people, soulful-a living, breathing organism. We sat around the table, talking, laughing, Shusha holding Iskra. A riveting excerpt from Janet Fitch’s latest, acclaimed novel, Chimes of a Lost Cathedral, followed by a deeply thoughtful Q&A on her process with writing group partner and friend, author Rita Williams. , young poet Marina Makarova finds herself pregnant and adrift amid the devastation of the Russian Civil War, forced to survive on her own resourcefulness.
This is the epic, mesmerizing story of one indomitable woman's journey through some of the most dramatic events of the last century." Swept up on these tides, Marina will join the marches for workers' rights, fall in love with a radical young poet, and betray everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn.As her country goes through almost unimaginable upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds, marked by deep passion and devastating loss, and the private heroism of an ordinary woman living through extraordinary times. Marina Makarova is a young woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life, a life about to be violently upended by the vast forces of history. From the mega-bestselling author of White Oleander and Paint It Black, a sweeping historical saga of the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of one young womanSt.
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