Ebook {Epub PDF} Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution by Julia Alekseyeva

 · Upon Lola's death, Julia discovered her great-grandmother's memoirs, and has now transformed them into her debut graphic novel, Soviet Daughter. Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. Soviet Daughter provides a window into the life of a rebellious, independent woman coming of age in the USSR, and the impact of her story and her spirit on her American great-granddaughter, two extraordinary women swept up in the history of their tumultuous times. At times heartbreaking and at times funny, this graphic novel memoir unites two generations of strong, independent women against a sweeping .  · Julia Alekseyeva’s graphic memoir Soviet Daughter is a tightrope act of balance between the political and the personal. Spanning one hundred years of family history, war, and revolution, Soviet Daughter brilliantly leverages the graphic novel as an elastic, illuminating form. We meet Julia in at the funeral of her great-grandmother, www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins.

Soviet Daughter provides a window into the life of a rebellious, independent woman coming of age in the USSR, and the impact of her story and her spirit on her American great-granddaughter, two extraordinary women swept up in the history of their tumultuous www.doorway.ru Daughter is the story of Julia Alekseyeva's great-grandmother Lola. Julia Alekseyeva's graphic novel Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution was published by Microcosm Publishing in This is the intertwining story of two women: Lola, who was born in a Jewish family in Kiev in , and her great-granddaughter Julia, whose family moved to the United States from Ukraine in the wake of the events at Chernobyl. In her graphic novel, Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution, Julia Alekseyeva uses grey scale watercolor to bring warmth and individuality to an often-harrowing tale of three generations of a Russian immigrant family. Alekseyeva came to the United States in at age four, along with her great-grandmother, Khinya Ignatsovkaya (Lola), maternal grandparents, and mother.

The story of Lola and Kyril is just one episode in Julia Alekseyeva’s richly-illustrated memoir Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution. In an interview, Alekseyeva reveals that when she was four years old, her great-grandmother Lola, her grandparents, and her mother emigrated with her from Kiev to Chicago in the aftermath of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. 'Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution': Comp Lit Grad Student Julia Alekseyeva publishes autobiographical graphic novel. February 2, Soviet Daughter provides a window into the life of a rebellious, independent woman coming of age in the USSR, and the impact of her story and her spirit on her American great-granddaughter, two extraordinary women swept up in the history of their tumultuous times. Julia Alekseyeva’s graphic memoir Soviet Daughter is a tightrope act of balance between the political and the personal. Spanning one hundred years of family history, war, and revolution, Soviet Daughter brilliantly leverages the graphic novel as an elastic, illuminating form. We meet Julia in at the funeral of her great-grandmother, Lola.