A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian. Before you ask, no I don't speak Ukrainian nor is that what the book's about, though there is a bit of tractor info (skipped over that part). From the back cover:
Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bring to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.
Sisters Vera and Nadia must put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their émigré engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina. With her proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she will stop at nothing in her pursuit of Western wealth.
But the sisters' campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets, uncovers fifty years of Europe's darkest history and send them back to the roots they'd much rather forget ...
It's been an amusing book!
