With a broken stone clenched tight in her hand, twelve-year-old Katya flees the Soviet Union for an uncertain future in 1930s Germany. Will it be a better place for kulak orphans like her? Will her broken stone help or hinder her growth into young adulthood? Broken Stone continues the story of Katya in Red Stone (first published as The Kulak’s Daughter). Gabriele Goldstone inherited scattered bits of her mother's memories, overshadowed by Stalin and Hitler and shaped them into the fictional character of Katya Halter. Gabriele travelled to Ukraine and searched through former KGB files to find missing pieces-along with the red stone that symbolizes Katya's home. Gabriele lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.