Soviet Milk by Nora Ikstena5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The mother struggles to cope, her despair manifesting in an inability to nurture her child or appreciate what the grandmother has suffered, and continues to due to the mother’s ongoing behaviour. These three generations must navigate the daily challenges and hardship of enforced communism, and the mental toll cultural theft takes. The story is told from the points of view of two women, an unamed mother and her daughter, although just as important is a third woman, the grandmother, whose love and desire for life holds the family together. It chillingly depicts how ordinary lives are scarred by a regime that works to control how people think, rewarding informants and punishing those who will not conform to state sanctioned voice and behaviour. It is set in Latvia during the years of Russian occupation, between 19. Soviet Milk, by Nora Ikstena (translated by Margita Gailitis), is the first title in Peirene Press’s new Home In Exile series. ![]()
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