The Turk and My Mother
Russian Americans
Wisconsin, fiction
Children of immigrants
Russia (federation), fiction
Fiction, sagas
Immigrants
Fiction, general
Fiction
""It's hard for me to picture my mother in love," Agnes's elderly son, George, admits, but that doesn't stop him from telling the story of his mother and the Turk." "When Josef Iljasic leaves for America in the spring of 1914, his wife, Agnes, believes that he will one day return to their village in…
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