Marina Lewycka Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. 1946
Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.
source: "A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian". Book by Marina Lewycka, March 31, 2005.
topic: Mother, Memories, Father, Grenade, Churning, Ukrainian, Backsides, Mother Died
