A HANDFUL OF SOIL (Paperback)

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 encounters both unexpected and painful, he begins to grasp what it means to carry not only a past but an entire homeland within him.

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 forced migration.
• 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.

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kudin & Sons Academic Press
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 29, 2023
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Print length ‏ : ‎ 183 pages
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.42 x 9 inches