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Marusia Petrenko lives with her family in a small farming village in the Ukraine. The year is 1986. Her son, Yurko, leaves for his shift at the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl. In a matter of hours, the lives of Marusia, her son, and the rest of the village change forever as they find themselves in a permanent evacuation of their village. Chernobyl has had a meltdown. Marusia eventually returns to the village along with 5 other older women who are determined to live out their days in the village of their birth
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The sky unwashed: A novel, Irene Zabytko
- Language
- Released
- 2000
- Binding
- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- The sky unwashed: A novel
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Irene Zabytko
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Released
- 2000
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 263
- ISBN10
- 1565122461
- ISBN13
- 9781565122468
- Series
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- Marusia Petrenko lives with her family in a small farming village in the Ukraine. The year is 1986. Her son, Yurko, leaves for his shift at the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl. In a matter of hours, the lives of Marusia, her son, and the rest of the village change forever as they find themselves in a permanent evacuation of their village. Chernobyl has had a meltdown. Marusia eventually returns to the village along with 5 other older women who are determined to live out their days in the village of their birth