As she ages she comes to quietly question the norm of communist rule, seeking out renegades and those fighting the system without even realising it. There is a bleakness to the tale, one interspersed with the hope of youth, the sense of change that can be felt in the air as the younger woman grows. The prose pulls the reader into the story, transporting them to an easily imagined Soviet run Latvia. Also like other Peirene books it is a no less effective and impacting because of its short size. This is a short novel, and like all Peirene books, one that can easily be read in a couple of hours. The story follows the mother’s battle with depression and her enforced exile to the Latvian countryside by the Government and the daughter’s struggle to show her mother reasons for living. Her narration is interspersed with that of her daughter, also unnamed. Soviet Milk follows the life of an unnamed doctor in Soviet governed Latvia. Will she and her daughter be able to return to Riga when political change begins to stir? Banished to a village in the Latvian countryside, her sense of isolation increases. She is deprived first of her professional future, then of her identity and finally of her relationship with her daughter.
The central character in the story tries to follow her calling as a doctor. This novel considers the effects of Soviet rule on a single individual.
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