When Luba Leaves Home
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Luba wants only the first part of their wish. She wants to leave her neighborhood-not to mention Ukraine-behind. It’s 1968, and protesting American students have taken to the city streets. Thinking that it’s time she breaks step with her heritage and gets into step with her peers, Luba registers as Linda on the first day at her commuter college. Then she buys a second-hand car to drive into a future far from her parent’s Wheat Street home.
The car must, however, first carry her father to his doctor’s appointments, a Ukrainian celebrity to her featured appearances, a dying neighbor home from work, and her lifelong buddies to school and back. Somewhere along the way, Linda takes a backseat and Luba takes the wheel, finding a new road to a destination somewhere between Ukraine and America.
In WHEN LUBA LEAVES HOME, award-winning author Irene Zabytko creates a bright new voice to tell the classic story of how the children of America’s melting pot grow up strong enough to carry their double identities.
- On Sale
- Apr 11, 2003
- Page Count
- 200 pages
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- ISBN-13
- 9781565123328
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