Zoya's Gift: Building a Bridge to a Global Family A Memoir

Still recovering from the heartbreak of infertility, memoirist Gail McCormick and her husband volunteer to host two Children of Chernobyl for a summer reprieve from radiation exposure. Fate pairs the Seattle couple with eight-year-old Ukrainian twin sisters from Belarus—and rekindles Gail’s childhood dream to build a bridge of peace between the US and the former Soviet Union.

Over four summers of mayhem and magic with the twins, a deep relationship takes root. When the girls age out of the p...