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Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their beloved father fails ill, Meredith and Nina find themselves together again, standing alongside their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, who even now offers no comfort to her daughters.
2) Granny Dan
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English
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A Russian ballerina's memoir of life as the mistress of the Tsar's physician. A bout of influenza brings them together, there are balls at the royal palace, an abortion, then the revolution separates them and she flees to America.
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Debols!llo
Pub. Date
2017.
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Español
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Reunited when their father falls ill, sisters Meredith and Nina find themselves under the shadow of their disapproving mother, whose painful history is hidden behind her rendition of a fairy tale told to the sisters in childhood.
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Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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A contemporary retelling of the Book of Job from the Bible. Job is the tale of Mendel Singer, a pious, destitute Eastern-European Jew and childrens Torah teacher whose faith is tested at every turn. His youngest son seems to be incurably disabled, one of his older sons joins the Russian Army, the other deserts to America, and his daughter is running around with a Cossack. When he flees with his wife and daughter, further blows of fate await him. In...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"When Andrei Kaplan's older brother Dima insists that Andrei return to Moscow to care for their ailing grandmother, Andrei must take stock of his life in New York. His girlfriend has stopped returning his text messages. His dissertation adviser is dubious about his job prospects. It's the summer of 2008, and his bank account is running dangerously low. Perhaps a few months in Moscow are just what he needs. So Andrei sublets his room in Brooklyn, packs...
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Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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An “irresistible”* debut about a Russian American girls bumpy path to adulthood. “I utterly loved every page.”*Anthony Marra, author of The Tsar of Love and Techno. When Oksanas family begins their new American life in Florida after emigrating from Ukraine, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet, her depressed mother sits home all day worrying, and her flamboyant grandmother relishes the attention she gets when she...
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