Summary
Russia, summer 1914. As war with Germany looms and the Czar's army tightens its grip on the local Jewish community, Miri Abramov and her physicist brother, Vanya, are facing an impossible decision. Since their parents drowned fleeing to America, Miri and Vanya have been raised by their babushka, a f... Full description
Summary: |
Russia, summer 1914. As war with Germany looms and the Czar's army tightens its grip on the local Jewish community, Miri Abramov and her physicist brother, Vanya, are facing an impossible decision. Since their parents drowned fleeing to America, Miri and Vanya have been raised by their babushka, a famous matchmaker who has taught them to protect themselves at all costs: to fight, to kill if necessary, and always to have an escape plan. But with Miri on the verge of becoming one of Russia's only female surgeons, and Vanya hoping to solve the final puzzles of Einstein's elusive theory of relativity, can they bear to leave the homeland that has given them so much? -- adapted from jacket |
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Physical Description: |
456 pages ; 24 cm |
ISBN: |
9781538746264 1538746263 |
Author Notes: |
Rachel is a prolific writer and reviewer for the Los Angeles Review of Books and DeadDarlings . She is a graduate of GrubStreet's "Novel Incubator." In a former life she was a hedge fund manager and a spin instructor. She has degrees from Harvard in Business, and Literature and Philosophy. She lives in Hanover, NH with her husband, three children, and dog named Zishe -- after the folk hero who inspires many tales around their dinner table. |