Red Star Tattoo
My Life as a Girl Revolutionary
Winner of the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction
Finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
One woman’s story of her unusual life, from a childhood spent constantly on the move, to becoming enmeshed in a cult-like communist organization at sixteen, unaware of the darkness that awaited her.
Sonja Larsen’s is a childhood in which family members come and go and where freedom is both a gift and a burden. Trying to escape the instability, searching for a sense of family and belonging, she arrives in Brooklyn at sixteen, and is soon drawn into an organization known publicly as the National Labor Federation and privately as the Communist Party USA Provisional Wing. Eager to prove herself, Sonja spends the…
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July 3, 2018
SONJA LARSEN is a graduate of the Simon Fraser University Writer's Studio. Larsen's work has been published in the Globe and Mail, Room and Descant, and a number of other print and online literary magazines. She works with youth in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and is currently at work on her second book.
