{"id":5820,"date":"2020-10-03T15:39:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T21:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=5820"},"modified":"2020-10-03T15:39:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T21:39:36","slug":"the-photograph-by-kat-karpenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?p=5820","title":{"rendered":"The Photograph by Kat Karpenko"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5821\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/?attachment_id=5821\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/photograph.jpg?fit=297%2C475&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"297,475\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"photograph\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/photograph.jpg?fit=297%2C475&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/photograph.jpg?resize=176%2C281&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5821\" width=\"176\" height=\"281\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A poignant historical drama\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karpenko\u2019s latest boldly captures the sweeping devastating \u201cterror-famine\u201d of the times from the perspective of a family caught in a Bolshevik domination. Stalin\u2019s rise to power in 1928 sets off a tidal wave of social turmoil that not only crushed the peasantry of the U.S.S.R. but also destroyed Ukraine. Nicholai Karpenko, Karpenko\u2019s grandfather and an affluent farmer, leaves Ukraine for Canada with his wife, children, and his younger brother and his family, but the remaining relations decide to stay back. As reality of the terror-famine sets in, the mere survival becomes an ordeal. Mixing fiction with fact, Karpenko beautifully captures the atmosphere of the times, bringing her historical characters to life. Her writing is assured and paced well and the historical detail researched meticulously. She succeeds admirably in depicting the lives of Ukrainians stuck in the horrors of the \u201cterror-famine\u201d. This deeply engrossing, fascinating tale is sure to move readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Photograph<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Kat Karpenko<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Book Baby<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Photograph-Kat-Karpenko-ebook\/dp\/B08BWBZ35T\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy now<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pub date June 15, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ISBN 9780995893412<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Price $14.99 (USD) paperback, $4.15 Kindle edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poignant historical drama\u2026 Karpenko\u2019s latest boldly captures the sweeping devastating \u201cterror-famine\u201d of the times from the perspective of a family caught in a Bolshevik domination. Stalin\u2019s rise to power in 1928 sets off a tidal wave of social turmoil that not only crushed the peasantry of the U.S.S.R. but also destroyed Ukraine. Nicholai Karpenko, Karpenko\u2019s grandfather and an affluent farmer, leaves Ukraine for Canada with his wife, children, and his younger brother and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145610851,"featured_media":5821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56739],"tags":[38100332,24777292,7223,726,3328,178,1584897,92732,1136176,610903656,62857929,1473,1008073,856121,349],"class_list":["post-5820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-reviews","tag-amreading","tag-amwriting","tag-author","tag-authors","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-historical-drama","tag-historical-fiction","tag-indie-books","tag-indie-books-review","tag-indiebooks","tag-reading","tag-review-blog","tag-review-website","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/photograph.jpg?fit=297%2C475&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pajKJn-1vS","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145610851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5823,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5820\/revisions\/5823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theprairiesbookreview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}