The Holomodor of the Ukraine in the 1930s was a crime against humanity in the guise of a change of governmental powers. The intentional manipulation of harvest productivity and impossible quotas by the Soviets didn’t allow enough food for people to survive. Few people did survive, which was the plan.

This novelization portraying the experiences of a typical farm family gives a human face to a huge tragedy. This tragedy was obscured by WWII and the threat of Nazism. Just as Anne Frank’s diary helped open the eyes of the world to the Holocaust, this book, the first in a series, may help make people aware of something they didn’t know about before.