A Handful of Soil -- a historical fiction novel set in Ukraine, blending a powerful immigrant family saga with true events about generational trauma, cultural identity, and exile.

One handful of earth. A lifetime of silence. And a journey that changes everything.

When Anthony's estranged grandfather dies, he leaves more than an inheritance -- he leaves a condition: travel to Ukraine, the family's ancestral homeland, and return with a handful of soil.
What begins as a symbolic task becomes a profound reckoning with identity, memory, and family history. Walking the roads of a distant land, Anthony uncovers:

• Buried family secrets long hidden from him.

• Unspoken trauma passed down through generations.

• The invisible weight of exile that shaped his family's destiny.

Through unexpected encounters and painful truths, he begins to understand what it means to carry not only a past, but an entire homeland within you.

Based on true events, A Handful of Soil is a deeply moving blend of historical fiction and multigenerational family saga. It explores:

• The quiet heroism of those forced to leave their homes.

• The lasting scars of displacement and exile.

• The search for belonging and cultural identity.

Readers call this novel prophetic -- in its pages, many years before it happened, was foretold the present tragedy of the Ukrainian people and the downfall of Ukraine as a state.

Some stories begin in silence -- and end in the voice we never knew we had.

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• Publication Date: October 28, 2023
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• Print Length: 185 Pages
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