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An Interview with Mary Kay Zuravleff
“Where I was born isn’t how I was raised.
Mary kay zuravleff biography of abraham lincoln
Though I hailed from Marianna, Pennsylvania, I was brought up hearing that wolves talk and Old Believers rise from the dead. That a good woman can make soup from a stone, and a good man’s snot is black with coal dust.”
From the opening pages of American Ending, Mary Kay Zuravleff’s new novel, narrator Yelena Federoff draws the reader into her vivid and gritty world as the first American-born daughter of a Russian coal miner and his wife.
The story unfolds from 1900 through the early 1920s and recounts the Federoffs’ hardscrabble life — one in which boys leave grade school for the mines, and girls get married off in their early teens to crank out babies they can barely afford to feed.
The Russian Orthodox Church may dictate its followers’ lives, but Yelena longs for something different: an American ending.
What led you to write a book about Russian-imm