The Carrion Vine

The Carrion Vine is a historically accurate, non-fiction account based upon the diary of the author’s mother, fleshed out with the author’s vivid memories as a 14 year-old girl. This is the story of Vita Kew and her daughter Ellie who were vacationing in Western Poland when they were captured by the Russians, while fleeing from the Germans at the onset of World War II. Caught up in the drama of changing political boundaries and the vagaries of war, they were shipped to a Siberian labor camp with hundreds of thousands of Polish citizens, as Communist Russia began to expatriate the countries along its Western border. This book is a sincere and thrilling story, written in a docu-drama format and told with the author’s clear voice.