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092    BIO|bVERZEMNI 
100 1  Verzemnieks, Inara,|eauthor. 
245 10 Among the living and the dead :|ba tale of exile and 
       homecoming on the war roads of Europe /|cInara 
       Verzemnieks. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bW.W. Norton & Company,|c[2017] 
300    282 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
520    Raised by her Latvian grandparents in Washington State, 
       Inara Verzemnieks grew up among expatriates, scattering 
       smuggled Latvian sand over the coffins of the dead, 
       singing folk songs with other children about a land none 
       of them had visited. Her grandmother’s stories re-created 
       in vivid, nostalgic detail the family farm she’d left 
       behind in a borderland violently contested during the 
       Second World War. In the fighting, her grandmother Livija 
       and her grandmother’s sister, Ausma, were separated and 
       would not see each other again for more than fifty years. 
       Journeying back to the remote village where her family 
       broke apart, Inara comes to know Ausma and the trauma of 
       her exile to Siberia under Stalin, while reconstructing 
       Livija’s survival through her years as a refugee. In 
       bringing together these two sides of the family story, 
       Inara honors both sisters in a deeply cathartic and moving
       account of loss, survival, resilience, and love. 
600 10 Verzemnieks, Inara|xFamily. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xRefugees|zLatvia. 
650  0 Refugees|zLatvia|vBiography. 
650  0 Latvian Americans|vBiography. 
650  0 Immigrants|zUnited States|vBiography.