Book description
In this āurgent and enthralling reckoning with family and historyā (Andrew Solomon), an American writer returns to Russia to face a past that still haunts him.Ā
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NAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES CRITICSā TOP BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Alex Halberstadtās quest takes him across the troubled, enigmatic landā¦
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Alex Halberstadtās paternal grandfather was the last living bodyguard for Josef Stalin. His maternal grandparents were Lithuanian Jews who watched firsthand as their world caught fire in the Holocaust. And Alex, who grew up in Moscow but moved to New York as a teenager, is now an out gay American man. From this mad tapestry of personal history, Halberstadt weaves an incredibly moving story of identity, family, and inherited trauma.
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