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Strong Roots: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Ukraine Children's Nature Books as she seeks to reconcileWhen Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, award winning Ukrainian chef and food writer Olia Hercules decided it was finally time to tell her story. Strong Roots is the story of a century in Ukraine told through four generations of one extraordinary family. It takes us from years of Russification, to Olia's grandmother's deportation to snowy wastelands under Stalin, to her aunt Zhenia's school protest, to her own parents' flight