Searching for Home: An Immigrant's Journey from Ukraine to the USA

It’s 1913 in the village of Mlyniv, Ukraine. 19-year-old Effrosinia has escaped her abusive husband and returns to her family’s dacha.

Discovery of her escape by the village elders would lead to public punishment, since at that time a wife was considered to be her husband’s property.

What can her family do to protect her?

Judythe Roberts professional life includes having created and run a cooking school in Los Angeles for 20 years. She also led cooking tours to France, Italy and China. She had a second career as a Foreign Patent Paralegal.Judythe has traveled extensively and has lived in Helsinki, Finland; Delhi, India; Teheran, Iran; and Paris, France. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and holds a Diplome Mention Bien from the Cordon Bleu in Paris.Searching for Home: An Immigrant’s Journey from Ukraine to the USA is Judythe Roberts’ first book and is partly based on stories about her Ukrainian family’s history.