Radiant girl
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In the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, a Ukrainian girl named Katya comes to understand the things most important about her homeland, and in combining the mythological strength of her ancestors with a newly acquired comprehension of the scientific truth of the event, Katya fulfills a promise she made to herself many years before.
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Katya is a young girl who lives with her family in the part of the USSR known as Ukraine. Her father works at a nuclear power station called Chernobyl. Yes, it is that nuclear power station and it is that time, the hours just before and just after the station explodes.
I did and I didn't like this book. Chernobyl is a powerful setting for a novel. The little Ukrainian elements were intriguing, but I wish they had felt less like elements added to the story to give the story a genuine Ukrainian feel. Katya and her friends seemed very American to me. I couldn't help feeling they should have done more things different from 21st century American teens, given the time and place of the story.
