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Gessen, Keith

Gessen, Keith

Athens Drive Community
East Regional
Eva H. Perry Regional
Middle Creek Community
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
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Adult Fiction

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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 up his hockey stuff, and moves into the apartment that Stalin himself had given his grandmother, a woman who has outlived her husband and most of her friends. She survived the dark days of communism and witnessed Russia's violent capitalist transformation, during which she lost her beloved dacha. She welcomes Andrei into her home, even if she can't always remember who he is. Andrei learns to navigate Putin's Moscow, still the city of his birth, but with more expensive coffee. He looks after his elderly--but surprisingly sharp!--grandmother, finds a place to play hockey, a cafe to send emails, and eventually some friends, including a beautiful young activist named Yulia. Over the course of the year, his grandmother's health declines and his feelings of dislocation from both Russia and America deepen. Andrei knows he must reckon with his future and make choices that will determine his life and fate. When he becomes entangled with a group of leftists, Andrei's politics and his allegiances are tested, and he is forced to come to terms with the Russian society he was born into and the American one he has enjoyed since he was a kid"--

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Fiction

Fiction

GESSEN

Wake County Public Libraries

Athens Drive Community
East Regional
Eva H. Perry Regional
Middle Creek Community
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
West Regional

9780735221314

2018

Viking

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Families -- Fiction
Grandmothers -- Fiction
Identity -- Fiction
Psychological fiction
Russian Americans -- Fiction
Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction

A terrible country : a novel

A terrible country : a novel / Keith Gessen

A terrible country

a novel

Families
Grandmothers
Identity
Russian Americans
Self-actualization (Psychology)