Swallowing mercury

By Wioletta Grzegorzewska

Subjects: Poland -- Fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, Poland, fiction

Description: While political change hums in the background, Wiola looks back on her youth in a close-knit agricultural community in 1980s Poland: the superstitions of the village women, rumored visits from the Pope, and the locked room in the dressmaker's house.