The Rooster House

A timely and deeply moving memoir of a Ukrainian family and the country’s tumultuous history.   Inspired by the author's love for her family, and peopled by warm, larger-than-life characters who jostle alongside the ghostly absences of others,  The Rooster House  is at once a riveting journey into the complex history of a wounded country and a profoundly moving tribute to hope and the refusal of despair. In the Ukrainian city of Poltava stands an elegant mansion known as the Roost