Soviet Milk - Nora Ikstena Hardback thousands of years later

thousands of years later

why dough acts up

even millions of them

She had ridden bikes since her teens and was well travelled

she won't live much longer

Soviet Milk - Nora Ikstena Hardback thousands of years laterSpanning fifty years in the life of a nation, from the end ofWorld War Two to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Soviet Milk givesvoice to a Latvian mother and daughter swept up in the tideof history. The mother, a gifted fertility specialist, is exiled to arural village after defending a patient from abuse by a Sovietofficer. Stripped of her career, she sinks into depression. Herdaughter grows up with her grandparents, struggling with hermother's distance