Chernobyl, life, and other disasters : a graphic memoir / Yevgenia Nayberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nayberg, Yevgenia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nayberg, Yevgenia.

Ukraine--History.

Ukraine.

Soviet Union--History.

Soviet Union.

Jews--Soviet Union--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc.

Jews.

Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986--Comic books, strips, etc.

Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986.

Genre:

Historical comics.

Nonfiction comics.

Autobiographical comics.

Graphic novels.

Coming-of-age comics.

Physical Description:

143 pages : chiefly (color) illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Holiday House, Neal Porter Books, 2026.

Summary:

Genya--the nickname of the book's author and story's protagonist, Yevgenia--knows from age five that she wants to be an artist. When she turns eleven, she'll apply to the same prestigious art school that her mother attended. But making the cut won't be easy, especially with the school's open-secret rule that no more than 1% of the student body can be Jewish. The years before Genya's eleventh birthday bring plenty to distract her. Nothing in Soviet Ukraine is quite as it seems; adults mock the government, but only in private; and her classmates are terrified of American bomb strikes. And that's all before April 26, 1986, when Genya's police officer neighbor gets called to an emergency in a town she's never heard of: Chernobyl.

ISBN:

9780823462780

0823462781

OCLC:

1528537532