Like a Haystack: Life from My Perspective

Like a Haystack: Life from My Perspective outlines the history—the events and the forces—that drove Margaret Grguric Smolik's family to be uprooted from their ancestral community, Vocin, in north-central Croatia during World War II. It gives the family’s background, describes daily life, and depicts the family’s experiences in Austria after the war. The second part of the book recounts the family’s emigration to the United States and the journey to Iowa. In Like A Haystack, the author contr...