Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary

Winner of the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction

One woman’s story of her unusual life, from a childhood spent constantly on the move, to becoming enmeshed in a cult-like communist organization at sixteen, unaware of the darkness that awaited her.

Sonja Larsen’s is a childhood in which family members come and go and where freedom is both a gift and a burden. Trying to escape the instability, searching for a sense of ...