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Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter
- Author
- Katya Suvorova
- Narrator
- Katya Suvorova
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 29 September 2026
- Run Time
- 9 hours 11 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In this darkly funny and irreverent memoir, the daughter of a mail-order bride unpacks her undocumented childhood in America.
The perfect listen for fans of the jaw-dropping twists of 90 Day Fiancé and the emotional gut punch of I’m Glad My Mom Died.
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 seventeen, 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.
When your parents sacrifice their lives so yours can be better, to whom do you owe your future
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. Her sharp, dry wit engages listeners in a deeply relatable take on the experience of being a child of immigrants and unraveling a landscape of family secrets and lies, sharing her unique story of being the undocumented daughter of a mail-order bride.
Critics Review
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“Suvorova debuts with a harrowing account of her childhood as a Russian immigrant in Texas…A brave testimony.”
Publishers Weekly
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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Details
- Author
- Katya Suvorova
- Narrator
- Katya Suvorova
- Duration
- 9 hours 11 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 September 2026
- ISBN
- 9798236014779
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Memoirs, Child abuse, Coping with abuse, Psychology
Synopsis
In this darkly funny and irreverent memoir, the daughter of a mail-order bride unpacks her undocumented childhood in America.The perfect listen for fans of the jaw-dropping twists of 90 Day Fiancé and the emotional gut punch of I’m Glad My Mom Died.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 seventeen, 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.When your parents sacrifice their lives so yours can be better, to whom do you owe your futureUngrateful 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. Her sharp, dry wit engages listeners in a deeply relatable take on the experience of being a child of immigrants and unraveling a landscape of family secrets and lies, sharing her unique story of being the undocumented daughter of a mail-order bride.
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