About the Author

Agate Nesaule is author of A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile, which won an American Book Award. She was born in Latvia and grew up in the turmoil of World War II. A professor emerita of English and women's studies at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, she lives, writes, and gardens in Madison.

Reviews

"A beautiful, compelling story, wholly original, exposing a shadow culture, one that needs illumination and attention: Latvian immigrants' struggle to make a life in the Midwest while coming to terms with war and histories political and personal."--Heather Sellers, author of Georgia Under Water and The Boys I Borrow

"A praise-song to truths of mind, heart, and body."--Alison Townsend, author of Persephone in America