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Steppes Are the Colour of Sepia, The

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The Steppes Are the Colour of Sepia: A Mennonite Memoir invites the reader to embark on a journey that traces the trails of ancestral memory over the steppes of the Russian empire to the valleys of Canada’s Fraser River. Connie Braun’s narrative continues where Sandra Birdsell’s historical fiction Russlander has left off — back to the catastrophic events of twentieth-century Europe. Braun intimately ushers us into the life of one extended Mennonite circle of relatives, and in particular the life of her father and grandfather, living under the fear of Stalin, and later, under the army expansion of Hitler’s Nazi Lebensraum Within the Ukraine. Within the vein of Janice Kulyk Keefer’s memoir Honey and Ashes: A Story of Family and Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces, Braun gives voice to the narrative of dispossession. In a memoir that may be historically faithful to documents, letters, old photographs and personal testimony, Braun offers a lyrical second-generation witness to her members of the family and to all other Canadians who have suffered displacement in history’s failures, and whose difficult to understand stories will have to be told. In doing so, she honours the spirit of resilience embodied by the refugees who have created and transformed Canadian society.

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