A Mountain of Crumbs

2010-01-12 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Elena Gorokhova
Release : 2010-01-12
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 584/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Mountain of Crumbs by : Elena Gorokhova

Download or read book A Mountain of Crumbs written by Elena Gorokhova. This book was released on 2010-01-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elena Gorokhova’s A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a Soviet girl who discovers the truths adults are hiding from her and the lies her homeland lives by. Elena’s country is no longer the majestic Russia of literature or the tsars, but a nation struggling to retain its power and its pride. Born with a desire to explore the world beyond her borders, Elena finds her passion in the complexity of the English language—but in the Soviet Union of the 1960s such a passion verges on the subversive. Elena is controlled by the state the same way she is controlled by her mother, a mirror image of her motherland: overbearing, protective, difficult to leave. In the battle between a strong-willed daughter and her authoritarian mother, the daughter, in the end, must break free and leave in order to survive. Through Elena’s captivating voice, we learn not only the stories of Russian family life in the second half of the twentieth century, but also the story of one rebellious citizen whose curiosity and determination finally transport her to a new world. It is an elegy to the lost country of childhood, where those who leave can never return.

Russian Tattoo

2015-01-06 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Elena Gorokhova
Release : 2015-01-06
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 845/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Russian Tattoo written by Elena Gorokhova. This book was released on 2015-01-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing From the bestselling author of A Mountain of Crumbs, a “brilliant and illuminating” (BookPage) portrait of mothers and daughters that reaches from Cold War Russia to modern-day New Jersey to show how the ties that hold you back can also teach you how to start over. Elena Gorokhova moves to the US in her twenties to join her American husband and to break away from her mother, a mirror image of her Soviet Motherland: overbearing, protective, and difficult to leave. Before the birth of Elena’s daughter, her mother comes to help care for the baby and stays for twenty-four years, ordering everyone to eat soup and wear a hat, just as she did in Leningrad. Russian Tattoo is the story of a unique balancing act and a family struggle: three generations of strong women with very different cultural values, all living under the same roof and battling for control. As Elena strives to bridge the gap between the cultures of her past and present and find her place in a new world, she comes to love the fierce resilience of her Soviet mother when she recognizes it in her American daughter. “Gorokhova writes about her life with a novelist’s gift,” says The New York Times, and her second memoir is filled with empathy, insight, and humor.

Waterless Mountain

2014 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Laura Adams Armer
Release : 2014
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 885/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Waterless Mountain written by Laura Adams Armer. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story, told in beautiful poetic prose, of the training of a present-day Navajo Indian boy who feels a vocation to become a medicine man.

Will Love for Crumbs

2012-01-12 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Jonna Ivin
Release : 2012-01-12
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 754/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Will Love for Crumbs written by Jonna Ivin. This book was released on 2012-01-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised by an alcoholic mother and without a father, Jonna learned at a young age to put her needs on the back-burner. After her mother dies of cancer, she goes on a spiritual journey looking for enlightenment and a purpose for her life. Eventually, she ends up as a volunteer in the relief effort following Hurricane Ike. There she meets a man that will forever change her life. In the swamps of Louisiana and the hills of Arkansas, Jonna follows her heart to build a life with an American hero - a 20 year veteran of the Army Special Forces. Only after uprooting her whole life, leaving everything and everyone she knows behind, do the pieces of this fairytale start to unravel. Realizing the man of her dreams is actually the stuff of nightmares; Jonna must once again go within and discover why she is a woman willing to love for crumbs.

Still Life with Bread Crumbs

2014 Fiction

Author : Anna Quindlen
Release : 2014
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 693/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Still Life with Bread Crumbs written by Anna Quindlen. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Still Life with Bread Crumbs begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life. Brilliantly written, powerfully observed, Still Life with Bread Crumbs is a deeply moving and often very funny story of unexpected love, and a stunningly crafted journey into the life of a woman, her heart, her mind, her days, as she discovers that life is a story with many levels, a story that is longer and more exciting than she ever imagined.

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