Ikaria and beyond.

When grief and reality complicate the journey.

For the past ten years, I’ve been studying genocide, especially those that appear in the wake of authoritarian regimes. The catalyzing force for this research is a novel that I’m writing about the generational impacts of the Holodomor. When I began writing this book, I had no awareness of the 1932 murder-by-hunger genocide that took the lives of seven t…