{"product_id":"forget-russia-9781732848047","title":"Forget Russia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Your problem is you have a Russian soul,\" Anna's mother tells her. In 1980, Anna is a na ve UConn senior studying abroad in Moscow at the height of the Cold War-and a second-generation Russian Jew raised on a calamitous family history of abandonment, Czarist-era pogroms, and Soviet-style terror. As Anna dodges date rapists, KGB agents, and smooth-talking black marketeers while navigating an alien culture for the first time, she must come to terms with the aspects of the past that haunt her own life. With its intricate insight into the everyday rhythms of an almost forgotten way of life in Brezhnev's Soviet Union, \u003cem\u003eForget Russia\u003c\/em\u003e is a disquieting multi-generational epic about coming of age, forgotten history, and the loss of innocence in all of its forms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBordetsky-Williams, L.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - L. BORDETSKY-WILLIAMS is the author of the memoir, \u003ci\u003eLetters to Virginia Woolf\u003c\/i\u003e (Hamilton Books, 2005, http: \/\/www.letterstovirginiawoolf.com); \u003ci\u003eThe Artist as Outside in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf\u003c\/i\u003e (Greenwood Press, 2000); and three poetry chapbooks (\u003ci\u003eThe Eighth Phrase\u003c\/i\u003e (Porkbelly Press 2014), \u003ci\u003eSky Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (Finishing Line Press 2014), and \u003ci\u003eIn the Early Morning Calling\u003c\/i\u003e (Finishing Line Press, 2018)). She is a Professor of Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey and lives in New York City.","brand":"Tailwinds Press Enterprises LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50929435705618,"sku":"9781732848047","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3f7176da-5bdb-454e-83a5-73c67f7dc9a7.jpg?v=1739041837","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/forget-russia-9781732848047","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}