An Echo In My Blood: The Search For My Familys Hidden Past; Author: Weisman, Alan; Hardcover

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An Echo In My Blood: The Search For My Familys Hidden Past

Author: Weisman, Alan
Hardcover
Published: October 1999
Harcourt
ISBN: 0151002916

Throughout his childhood in Minneapolis, Alan Weisman was told that his grandfather was killed by Communists in the Ukraine at the turn of the century. When, as an adult, he meets a long-estranged uncle who tells a very different version of the story, Alan embarks on a search for the truth that takes him to the chemical ruin of Chernobyl and back in time to the Bolshevik Revolution. He discovers the paradoxical rationale for his father's vehement political and social conservatism as well as a more universal truth: that all immigrant families, in order to survive in a new world, mustcreate protective family myths. One of these myths hides the true fate of his grandfather-a nightmare too terrible to express. At once an examination of his rootless generation and a look at the hopes

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