"Marina Jarre’s vibrant memoir is stunning in its intimacy, honesty, and finely observed detail."
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Hilma Wolitzer, author of An Available Man and Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket
“Enthralling and exquisite, by one of modern Russia’s finest writers.”
Philippe Sands, author of East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes against Humanity”