Title: Turnip blues
First published: 1998
Description: The tale of a Ukrainian family of immigrants, recounting their joys and sorrows in America and in the old country. The novel is narrated by a woman in her seventies as she and a friend drive to visit a grave. A first novel.
Subjects: Fiction, Tomb, Slovak Americans, Women, Large type books, Older women, Widows, Travel, Friendship, Reminiscing in old age
Places: Pennsylvania
People: Bessie Smith (1894-1937)