One Ukrainian Summer : A memoir about falling in love and coming of age in the former USSR by Viv Groskop takes a closer look at

takes a closer look at her family story

and a reckoning with the painful

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Dr McCreebor's book is filled with the dark and disturbing stories he has collected on his travels around the world

One Ukrainian Summer : A memoir about falling in love and coming of age in the former USSR by Viv Groskop takes a closer look atAutumn 1993. The former USSR. Viv is about to turn 21 and is on a study year abroad, supposedly immersed in the language, history and politics of a world that has just ceased to exist: the Soviet Union. Instead, she finds herself immersed in Bogdan Bogdanovich the lead guitarist of a Ukrainian punk rock band. As the temperature drops, he promises that if she can get through the freezing Russian winter, he will give her 'one Ukrainian summer'. But is