Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter
A Memoir From the Child of a Mail-Order Bride
$75.24
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2026
Summary
In this darkly funny and irreverent memoir, the daughter of a mail-order bride unpacks her undocumented childhood in America.
Growing up undocumented in Houston, Texas, Katya Suvorova learned that keeping her family together meant dodging the police, enduring her mother’s many husbands, and babysitting her younger sister instead of finishing the third grade.
Her understanding of her life shifted dramatically at seventeen, when Katya discovered her mother’s advertisement in a f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798892426848 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Katya Suvorova |
| Publisher: | Crooked Lane Books |
| Imprint: | Crooked Lane Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 139mm |
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Praise for Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter: “Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter is a searing, eye-opening, and intimately honest account of what it means to come of age as an undocumented immigrant who has her childhood end too soon. I cried, I laughed, I could not put this book down. I will be thinking of Katya Suvorova’s words for years to come.”—Qian Julie Wang, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Country“Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter is a heartbreaking but entertaining dive into immigration in America and complicated relationships between mothers and daughters, and surviving generational trauma.”—Daniella Mestyanek Young, author of Uncultured
About The Author
Katya Suvorova
Raised as an undocumented Russian immigrant in Texas, Katya Suvorova (she/her) is now a US citizen writing from Seattle. Her work is powered by strong coffee courtesy of her husband’s amateur barista phase, a cat so unruly she once earned a spot on the no-fly list, and a three-legged dog who moves through the world like she has five legs and no regrets. Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter is her debut memoir.
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