The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine (National Book Award Finalist)
Alternating timelines between past and present, The Lost Year is a stunning story of family secrets and hidden history, giving readers insight into 1930s Ukraine and the Holodomor famine. This unputdownable read based on the author’s own family history is both heartbreaking and hopeful.
*A National Book Award Finalist*
From the author of Nowhere Boy - called “a resistance novel for our times” by The New York Times - comes a brilliant middle-grade survival story that traces a harrowing family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine that devastated Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s.
Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved in his one-hundred-year-old great-grandmother to ride out the pandemic, adding to ...






















