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Katya Suvorova

Biography

Katya Suvorova

Raised as an undocumented Russian immigrant in Texas, Katya Suvorova is now a US citizen writing from abroad. 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.

Katya Suvorova

Books by Katya Suvorova

Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter: A Memoir from the Child of a Mail-Order Bride
by Katya Suvorova - Memoir, Nonfiction

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 17, when Katya discovered her mother’s advertisement in a forgotten Eastern European mail-order bride catalog from the 1990s. As she grew older, Katya came to better understand what her mother had risked when she smuggled herself and her then-three-year-old daughter from Russia into the US. UNGRATEFUL IMMIGRANT DAUGHTER explores difficult questions and stories both shocking and hilarious across Katya’s childhood through to an adulthood estranged from the woman who sacrificed everything for her.