I failed to ask my own grandmother about her experiences growing up on the prairie after her parents came to Canada from Eastern/Central Europe. I read "Lesia's Dream" for one example at what life could have been like for her, so I was reading more for the "historical" part of historical fiction. But along with giving a detailed picture of the natural and human world in part of Manitoba around the time of World War I, the book has a strong and endearing protagonist, and the story flows very nicely. It turned out to be a quick read because I was so thoroughly pulled into Lesia's story.
This is a story of a Ukrainian family immigrating to Canada right before World War I, and all the hardships they face as a discriminated immigrant family in a new country, speaking a foreign language and given a plot of difficult land. I really enjoyed it because it gave me a perspective on Canada that I didn't really know about. It's a good story.Favourite female: Lesia Magus. I just like her. A good, strong, moral character who has to take care of her family when the males are away and her mom
