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In this âurgent and enthralling reckoning with family and historyâ (Andrew Solomon), an American writer returns to Russia to face a past that still haunts him.Â
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NAMED ONE OFÂ THE NEW YORK TIMESÂ CRITICSâ TOP BOOKS OF THE YEAR
Alex Halberstadtâs quest takes him across the troubled, enigmatic land ofâŚ
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Alex Halberstadtâs 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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