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By Connie Braun

ISBN-10: 155380063X

ISBN-13: 9781553800637

The Steppes Are the color of Sepia: A Mennonite Memoir invitations the reader to embark on a trip that strains the trails of ancestral reminiscence over the steppes of the Russian empire to the valleys of Canada’s Fraser River. Connie Braun’s narrative keeps the place Sandra Birdsell’s historic fiction Russlander has left off – again to the catastrophic occasions of twentieth-century Europe.

Braun in detail ushers us into the lifetime of one prolonged Mennonite family members, and particularly the lifetime of her father and grandfather, residing below the phobia of Stalin, and later, lower than the army enlargement of Hitler’s Nazi Lebensraum within the Ukraine. within the vein of Janice Kulyk Keefer’s memoir Honey and Ashes: a narrative of relations and Anne Michaels’ Fugitive items, Braun provides voice to the narrative of dispossession.

In a memoir that's traditionally trustworthy to records, letters, outdated photos and private testimony, Braun bargains a lyrical second-generation witness to her kinfolk and to all different Canadians who've suffered displacement in history’s mess ups, and whose vague tales needs to be instructed. In doing so, she honours the spirit of resilience embodied by means of the refugees who've created and remodeled Canadian society.

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