The taste of hunger

"The taste of hunger is a family saga about a family of Ukrainian immigrants, the insatiable power of desire, unsettling Baba Yaga fairytales, and a moment of violence that changes everything. In Saskatchewan in the late 1920s, a fifteen-year-old Ukrainian immigrant named Olena is forced into marriage with Taras, a man twice her age, who wants her even though she has refused him. Stuck in a hardscrabble life and with a husband she despises, fierc...