![]() ![]() ![]() Disinformation had also been paramount during the period I was writing about-the Holodomor in Ukraine.” Living through her middle-grade son’s pandemic experiences, Marsh found a new character emerging: 13-year-old Matthew of Leonia, N.J. A lot of the country hadn’t gotten to that point yet, and I was struck by the amount of disinformation that was quickly emerging. “Early on in the pandemic,” she said, “there was an apocalyptic feeling, living in isolation and fear and watching news on television about the New York area, where I had grown up. She began drafting a multi-perspective story of three Ukrainian cousins in the 1930s: two in Ukraine and one in Depression-era Brooklyn.Ī few months later, adjusting to life during Covid in Washington, D.C., with her husband and two children, her thoughts about the story she was telling began to expand. Talking over coffee and bagels at Zabar’s in New York City with her editor Jen Besser, Marsh decided it was time. Aware that few people knew about this genocide, she felt in possession of a secret history, which she had always wanted to write about. Growing up from age five in a three-generation household in Yonkers, N.Y., with her maternal grandmother, who emigrated from that country in 1928, she heard a lot about the Holodomor (“death by hunger”) imposed by Stalin in the 1930s. When Katherine Marsh set out to write her sixth novel for young readers in late 2019, she planned to finally tackle her Ukrainian family history. ![]()
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