{"id":8502,"date":"2023-02-11T17:07:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T17:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=8502"},"modified":"2023-02-11T17:07:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T17:07:59","slug":"an-excellent-and-terrible-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/an-excellent-and-terrible-book\/","title":{"rendered":"An excellent and terrible book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thank you Susan Lowell and the Historical Novel Society for this review of Winterkill. You’d think an author wouldn’t like their book to be called terrible, but seeing as I’m immersing the reader in the midst of a largely unknown genocide that’s being replicated by Russia right now, the description is apt. Here’s how the review begins: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is an excellent and terrible book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well-written, it includes convincing and sympathetic characters, and it bears witness to an awful historical event: Stalin\u2019s partially successful attempt between 1930 and 1933 to starve Ukraine to death. Its author, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, is, in her own words, \u201cfierce in her pursuit of truth.\u201d Read more here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thank you Susan Lowell and the Historical Novel Society for this review of Winterkill. You’d think an author wouldn’t like their book to be called terrible, but seeing as I’m immersing the reader in the midst of a largely unknown genocide that’s being replicated by Russia right now, the description is apt. Here’s how the … Continue reading “An excellent and terrible book”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[681,233,353,7,609],"class_list":["post-8502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-historical-novel-society","tag-ukrainian-famine-genocide","tag-scholastic","tag-ukrainian","tag-winterkill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8503,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions\/8503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}