Books by Katya Cengel about everything from baseball to Chernobyl

by Katya Cengel
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4 books
At first glance it is hard to figure out what links my four books besides the fact that I wrote all of them. But if you look closer you will find a theme. Whether I am writing about minor league baseball, Ukraine or deportation I tell stories of communities. The people in these communities are faced with difficult choices and are often overlooked or misunderstood.
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Bluegrass Baseball

A Year in the Minor League Life
Katya Cengel, 2012
After following a minor league baseball team around for a season as a journalist I became fascinated by the players’ transitory lifestyle. There were so many colorful characters involved in the minors from the team owners to the pastor who prays with the players that I decided I needed to write a book.

Exiled

From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back
Katya Cengel, 2023
Exiled developed out of a childhood friendship with a Cambodian refugee. When my friend told me that some of her Cambodian friends and relatives were being deported, I knew there was a larger story here that needed to be told.

From Chernobyl with Love

Reporting from the Ruins of the Soviet Union
Katya Cengel, 2023
I spent almost five years living and reporting from Latvia and then Ukraine. This book developed out of my desire to tell the stories of some of the fascinating people living in the former Soviet Union just a decade after its collapse.

Straitjackets and Lunch Money

A 10-Year-Old in a Psychosomatic Ward
Katya Cengal, 2023
I was placed in the psychosomatic ward of a children’s hospital when I was ten. The experience had a profound effect on me and in this book I set out to track down those who treated me. I tell the story of what happened to me as well as what happened to children like me in the past and what happens to them today.