A coming-of-age novel and family chronicle, *White Cherries, Black Cherries* reconstructs Ada’s childhood in a village in Neamț County during the final decade of communism.
Stories, customs, objects, and photographs gather around Grandmother Maia, alongside the painful history of the villages displaced during the construction of the Izvorul Muntelui dam.
Hardship, labor, school, and partings are viewed through the eyes of a child for whom the visible world naturally extends into legend and miracle.
Composed of episodes linked by family memory, the novel preserves the image of a community and a childhood that are at once luminous and unsettling.