Short, Vigorous Roots by Mark Budman

Author:Mark Budman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ooligan Press
Published: 2021-11-23T22:07:03+00:00

WINNIPEG

The name escaped their throats with a soft, fricative “G.” They’d christened their daughter “Evgenia” in a ceremony at Saints Vladimir and Olga Cathedral, but always addressed her by the diminutive “Genia,” with the inflection that led people to assume they were mispronouncing the far more common “Jeannie.” In school, the teacher called her that in class, which made her feel pleasantly ordinary, and the same schoolteacher suggested her parents stop speaking Ukrainian at home, warning them of the foreign accent their daughter would acquire.

Never. Her mother bristled. We lost everything else.

After the war, they’d rescued consonants, vowels, a trail of syllables. They spoke and prayed in their mother tongue, worshipped God in a church erected by immigrants, and denied the concept of collective blame.

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