Join Connecticut-born author Larissa Babij, who has lived in Kyiv, Ukraine since 2005, for a reading and conversation about her new book A Kind of Refugee: The Story of an American Who Refused to Leave Ukraine. The book chronicles the first year of all-out war in Ukraine through vivid dispatches that Babij sent to readers abroad in 2022. It is a personal story of coming to terms with her own inherited past as the grandchild of Ukrainian WWII refugees while responding to Russia's assault on her home and discovering the significance of taking care of your country together with your compatriots. A Kind of Refugee is both a testimony to Ukraine's indefatigable spirit and a message to Americans to take responsibility for their power to shape the war's outcome.
"Larissa Babij’s vital dispatches from Ukraine humanize people subject to the dehumanizing conditions of war. At times meditative, at others sharp as shrapnel, Babij’s testimonies slice through the fog of this ongoing war, making the existential stakes of this battle for Ukraine clear as day." Maria Sonevytsky, Professor of Anthropology and Music, Bard College
The event will be held at the Dodd Center on Tuesday April 23 at 3pm and will be moderated by Alexander Kuzma, Chief Development Officer at the Ukrainian Catholic University Foundation and longtime Connecticut Ukrainian-American community organizer.
For more information, contact: Ukrainian Student Association at usauconn91@gmail.com