Radiant girl

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.