![]() ![]() ![]() Elena, must struggle with the challenge of raising an American daughter whilst living with her controlling mother, a mirror image of her Motherland. Navigating a country she had been taught to fear, Elena begins to carve out a new life in an unfamiliar world.īefore the birth of Elena's daughter, her mother comes to visit and stays for twenty-four years. When Elena Gorokhova arrives in America, the only link back to her Russian past is a suitcase filled with twenty kilograms of what used to be her life. ‘The possibility of leaving Russia was never as thrilling as the prospect of leaving my mother.’ ‘Incredibly powerful … by the time you reach the end, you’ll have experienced the laughter, sorrow, joy, regret, love and hurt of a real life.’ Alan Alda SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING ![]()
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