A Handful of Soil

By Andrew V. Kudin and Andrew V. Kudin

Book Overview

A Handful of Soil - a historical fiction novel set in Ukraine, blending a powerful immigrant family saga with true events about generational trauma, cultural identity, and exile.

One handful of earth. A lifetime of silence. And a journey that changes everything.

When Anthony's estranged grandfather dies, he leaves more than an inheritance-he leaves a condition: travel to Ukraine, the family's ancestral homeland, and return with a handful of soil.
What begins as a symbolic task becomes a profound reckoning with identity, memory, and family history. Walking the roads of a distant land, Anthony uncovers: Buried family secrets long hidden from him.Unspoken trauma passed down through generations.The invisible weight of exile that shaped his family's destiny.
Through encounters both unexpected and painful, he begins to grasp what it means to carry not only a past but an entire homeland within him.

Based on true events, A Handful of Soil is a deeply moving blend of historical fiction and multigenerational family saga. It explores: The quiet heroism of those forced to leave their homes.The lasting scars of displacement and forced migration.The search for belonging and cultural identity.

Readers call this novel prophetic - in its pages, many years before it happened, was foretold the present tragedy of the Ukrainian people and the downfall of Ukraine as a state.

Some stories begin in silence-and end in the voice we never knew we had.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CM3C3W4N
• ISBN13: 9798865831211
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"