This paper examines the concepts of borderlands, borderscapes, and bordermemories
as cultural discursive practices that have been extensively presented and analyzed in
an increasing number of theoretical works in Border Studies. Contemporary American
Ukrainian writers have made attempts to introduce their hybrid experience and include
it into American culture. One of them is Alexander J. Motyl, whose novel Fall River
(2014) is analyzed as an example of border writing. The novel is based on the author’s
narrative memory, rooted in his mother’s stories about Ukraine and their family
members’ crossings of borders in the interwar period and belonging to two cultures,
Ukrainian and American, that shaped their identities.