The Memory Keeper of Kyiv

In 1929 Katya is 16 years old surrounded by family and in love with the boy next door. When Stalin’s activists arrive in her village it’s just a few a little pressure to join the collective. But soon neighbors disappear those who speak out are never seen again and every new day is uncertain.Resistance has a price and as desperate hunger grips the countryside survival seems more a dream than a possibility. But even in the darkest times love beckons.Seventy years later a young widow discovers her grandmother’s journal one that will reveal the long-buried secrets of her family’s haunted past.This is a story of the resilience of the human spirit the love that sees us through our darkest hours and the true horror of what happened during the Holodomor.