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Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter

A Memoir From the Child of a Mail-Order Bride

Katya Suvorova

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English
Crooked Lane Books
27 October 2026
In this darkly funny and irreverent memoir, the daughter of a mail-order bride unpacks her undocumented childhood in America.

The perfect read for fans of the jaw-dropping twists of 90 Day Fiance 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 readers 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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Imprint:   Crooked Lane Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 209mm,  Width: 139mm, 
Weight:   567g
ISBN:   9798892426848
Pages:   320
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

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.

Reviews for Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter: A Memoir From the Child of a Mail-Order Bride

Praise for Ungrateful Immigrant Daughter: “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 “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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