04340cam a2200841 4500 525562026 TxAuBib 20211105120000.0 ||||||s2000||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781616202439 1616202432 B00885XJPW Amazon a09f0caa-a173-4c9a-83e9-2946fb6bd2d3 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 934024 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Zabytko, Irene. The Sky Unwashed [Libby] : A Novel. Algonquin Books, 2000. family. Soviet. Ukraine. evacuation. small town. Nature. Radiation. Communism. contamination. refugee. Moscow. chernobyl. Historical Fiction. novel. disaster. Rebellion. Environment. rural. Socialism. infidelity. country life. village. government. 1980s. Nuclear power. tragedy. farm. Kiev. soviet russia. radiation sickness. Kyiv. soviet government. forced evacuation. soviet officials. starylis. best novels about chernobyl. best novels about nuclear fallout. books about Chernobyl. Chernobyl disaster. HBO Chernobyl. midnight in chernobyl. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2405kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<p>Early on an April Saturday in 1986 in a farm village in Ukraine, widow Marusia Petrenko and her family awake to a day of traditional wedding preparations. Marusia bakes her famous wedding bread—a korovai—in the communal village oven to take to her neighbor's granddaughter's reception. Late that night, after all the dancing and drinking, Marusia's son Yurko leaves for his shift at the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl. In the morning, the air has a strange metallic taste. The cat is oddly listless. The priest doesn't show up for services. Yurko doesn't come home from work. Nobody knows what's happened (and they won't for many days), but things have changed for the Petrenkos—forever. Inspired by true events, this unusual, unexpected novel tells how—and why—Marusia defies the Soviet government's permanent evacuation of her deeply contaminated village and returns to live out her days in the only home she's ever known. Alone in the deserted town, she struggles up into the church bell tower to ring the bells twice every day just in case someone else has returned. And they have, one by one. In the end, five intrepid old women—the village babysi—band together for survival and to confront the Soviet officials responsible for their fate. And, in the midst of desolation, a tenacious hold on life chimes forth. Poignant and truthful and triumphant, this timeless story is about ordinary people who do more than simply "survive."</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1953-1/A09/F0C/AA/SkyUnwashed.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=A09F0CAA-A173-4C9A-83E9-2946FB6BD2D3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1953-1/A09/F0C/AA/SkyUnwashed.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=A09F0CAA-A173-4C9A-83E9-2946FB6BD2D3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/1953-1/A09/F0C/AA/SkyUnwashed.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=A09F0CAA-A173-4C9A-83E9-2946FB6BD2D3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)