Letters from a Ukrainian Mother: War, Love and Raising Children Between Sirens and Hope (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798249705664)

LETTERS FROM A UKRAINIAN MOTHER

What does it mean to raise children when history breaks open?

On the morning of February 24, 2022, the sound of explosions shattered the last ordinary day of a Ukrainian mother's life.

In this intimate and luminous literary memoir, Anastasiia De Mai writes from the fault line between war and motherhood - crafting a series of letters born not from distance, but from lived experience. Letters to her children. Letters to the future. Letters written from the fragile edge where love refuses to disappear.

Written with emotional precision and quiet power, Letters from a Ukrainian Mother is not a book about politics or strategy. It is a book about what remains when everything familiar fractures.

Through departures and waiting, silence and memory, fear and tenderness, these pages trace the invisible architecture of resilience - the small human choices that endure long after headlines fade.

This is a story of:
- motherhood under pressure
- love that survives displacement
- memory that refuses erasure
- identity that expands beyond borders

But above all, it is a story about remaining human when history tries to redefine what that means.

Moving between homeland and exile, between inner landscapes and global events, De Mai writes in a voice that is both deeply personal and universally resonant. Her letters do not ask for sympathy - they offer recognition.

Recognition for anyone who has lived through uncertainty.
For anyone who has carried love through rupture.
For anyone who has wondered how tenderness survives in a fractured world.

This is a book for readers of literary memoir and reflective nonfiction, for mothers everywhere, and for those searching for quiet light in difficult times.

Because some stories are not written to explain history.

They are written to preserve humanity.

Author: Anastasiia de Mai
ISBN-13: 9798249705664
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 02/24/2026
Pages: 142
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.33d