From Chernobyl with Love by Katya Cengel

Katya is an American journalist who lived in Latvia and later Ukraine starting in the 1990s. She is an intrepid traveler and adventurer who allows her readers to join her from their own comfy homes as she vividly shares tales of her work, dating and the difficulties of her life abroad.

This memoir will have you kissing ground where you live, grateful that you are not living in a former Soviet country.Doing without luxuries is a given since even basics like running water, heat and electricity are in often in doubt. Why she stays is beyond my understanding, though a romantic relationship plays a part.

This story is an easy read that will capture the interest of those who dream of living and working in a country very unlike their own. Katya’s travels for a good story, even to still-toxic Chernobyl, will leave you shaking your head in wonder.

My sincere thanks to #NetGalley and #UniversityofNebraskaPress/PotomacBooks for an ARC for this review.