Kris Spisak

The Baba Yaga Mask

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Winner, 2022 ** Silver IPPY Award for Best Regional Fiction: Europe, 2023 ** Finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards for First Novel, 2023 ** Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards for Multicultural Fiction, 2023 When their grandmother is lost after a trans-Atlantic flight, two Ukrainian-American sisters are swept into a quest across Eastern Europe to find the woman who always told more tales than truths. From Poland to Slovakia to Hungary and beyond, Larissa and Ira navigate the steps of Ukrainian folk dance, the cliff-side paths of Slovak Paradise National Park, and the stark realities of love and war. Their grandmother's obsession with the wisdom and ferocity of Baba Yaga folktales is only the beginning of what they uncover. Larissa and Ira's journey is cross-stitched with their grandmother's narrative of survival within the epic panorama of World War II in Western Ukraine, where her coming of age echoes a country's fight for identity and independence. For teenage Vira in 1941 and her modern-day granddaughters, understanding their family's roots means everything.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Davro Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9798999997906
• Artikelnr.: 75592560

Autorenporträt

Kris Spisak wrote her first book, Get a Grip on Your Grammar: 250 Writing and Editing Reminders for the Curious or Confused (Career Press, 2017), with a goal of helping writers of all kinds sharpen their craft and empower their communications. Her "Words You Should Know" podcast and "Grammartopia" events follow the same mission, as does her second book, The Novel Editing Workbook: 105 Tricks & Tips for Revising Your Fiction Manuscript (Davro Press, 2020). Her third book, dedicated to personal storytelling, is The Family Story Workbook: 105 Prompts & Pointers for Writing Your History (Davro Press, 2020). A former college writing instructor, having taught at institutions including the University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University, Kris is now an active speaker, workshop leader, and fiction editor. She is a member of James River Writers, the Women's Fiction Writers Association, and the Alliance of Independent Authors.