A brief history of tractors in ukrainian

Told from the point of view of Nadezhda, the daughter, the story ticks along as if written in a diary with regular updates on the progress of her father and his Generously Chested new bride.

It is a mildly amusing story of a daughter’s relationship with her slightly crazy father when not long after her mother’s death when he announces that he is going to get married to a 36 year old woman from his Ukrainian home land. It has won a bunch of prizes including the Orange Prize for Fiction … surely it should warrant more than OK. I finished it a while back now, but I have been putting off writing the review as I didn’t really want to start off with a negative review, and I suppose that a verdict of OK is neutral right? The thing is, I expected so much more. OK … So I told you that I would check back in with a brief review of “A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian” by Marina Lewycka.