Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter

Praise for Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter:
“Suvorova debuts with a harrowing account of her childhood as a Russian immigrant in Texas … A brave testimony.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter is a fascinating insight into what it’s like to live illegally in the US and a horrifying exposé of the abuse that “mail-order brides” and their children suffer … It’s the worst of the reality series 90 Day Fiancé meets the best of Long Lost Family; you just can’t look away.”
—The Times

“Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter is a searing, eye-opening, and intimately honest account of what it means to come of age as an undocumented immigrant who has her childhood end too soon. I cried, I laughed, I could not put this book down. I will be thinking of Katya Suvorova’s words for years to come.”
—Qian Julie Wang, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Country

“In Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter, Katya Suvorova rides a knife’s edge between heartbreak and hilarity. The stories she shares from her upbringing as the daughter of an emotionally unstable mail-order bride are as absurd as they are brutal. This is tragicomedy at its finest.”
—Alia Volz, NBCC finalist and author of Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

“A piercing story of an undocumented childhood spent in the chaos of a mother’s desperate, brutal fight for American citizenship. Suvorova’s sharp-eyed memoir shines a light on the aspect of American immigrant experience few of us ever see. A story of power, family, and the lengths some people go to for security and love.”
—Sasha Vasilyuk, journalist and author of award-winning novel Your Presence Is Mandatory

“Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter is a heartbreaking but entertaining dive into immigration in America and complicated relationships between mothers and daughters, and surviving generational trauma.”
—Daniella Mestyanek Young, author of Uncultured

“Delivered in searing and luminous fragments, Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter dares to tell the stories so many of us are taught to hide. It’s a turbulent narrative of family lost and family found and the layers and lies and love that cleave us to and from one another.”
—David Martinez, author of Bones Worth Breaking

Raised as an undocumented Russian immigrant in Texas, Katya Suvorova (she/her) is now a US citizen writing from Seattle. 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.

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