"Through a skillful combination of biography, memoir and autobiography, Cherie Smith traces four generations of her fascinating immigrant family, and in doing so, charts the very course of Russian-Jewish immigration to the Canadian prairies over the last 100 years." "The story begins in the shtetls of Poland and Latvia in the 1880s and follows an often wild and woolly assortment of relatives as they strive to become Canadians."--BOOK JACKET.