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Kalani Pickhart holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University. She is the recipient of research fellowships from the Virginia G. Piper Center and the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Intelligence for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies. I Will Die in a Foreign Land is her first novel.
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I Will Die in a Foreign Land focuses on the events that directly led up to Russia's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, including the protests of 2013-2014 sparked by the Ukrainian government's decision to build closer ties with Russia rather than sign an agreement with the European Union, which led to the overthrow of the government and, shortly after, Russia annexing Crimea and the Donbas region. You also touch on earlier Ukrainian history, such as the famine of the early 1930s and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Much of this history might be new to our readers. Other than your book, what resources do you recommend to people wanting to gain a better understanding of the events leading up to the present day?
Credible news sources, like Kyiv Independent, New York Times, Associated Press. I like journalists like Christopher Miller (@christopherjm) on Twitter – I've followed him since the early days of writing. Terrell Jermaine Starr (@terrelljstarr) is a voice I discovered this year and I also really appreciate his reportage.
The most accessible documentary right now about Euromaidan is called Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom, which the director announced has been made available and free to watch on YouTube (...
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