Description: Donna Solecka Urbikas, the author of My Sisters Mother, grew up in the Midwest during the golden years of the American century.
A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin’s Siberia
My Sister’s Mother, Available on Paperback, Hardcover, or Audiobook
Donna Solecka Urbikas grew up in the Midwest during the golden years of the American century. But her Polish-born mother and half-sister endured dehumanizing conditions during World War II as slave laborers in Siberia. War and exile created a profound bond between mother and older daughter, one that Donna would struggle to find with either of them. After the war, the older daughter, mother, and her new husband—a Polish Army officer who had helped them escape the Soviet Union—are haunted by the past. Baby bo