© Lisa Grekul, 2003

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Edited by Geoffrey Ursell

Cover and book design by Duncan Campbell

Cover photo: “Portrait of Woman” by Shannon Mendes/Masterfile

Author photo by Janis O’Neill

National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Grekul, Lisa, 1972-

Kalyna’s song / Lisa Grekul.

ISBN 1-55050-355-3

I. Title.

PS8563.R446K34 2006 jC813'.6

C2006-905172-0

This publication has been funded in part by the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko, with the assistance of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Saskatchewan Provincial Council.

The publisher gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance of the Saskatchewan Arts Board, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Government of Canada through Canada Book Fund.

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