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Aug 08, 2015baldand rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I’ve never read a better memoir than this one. Ms. Gorokhova writes like an angel, now lyrical, now funny. She has a great gift for providing her reader with the appropriate aphorism or the telling detail. At the time she met the American she would marry, the love of Ms. Gorokhova’s life was a Ukrainian from Kyiv named Boris Kravchenko, who she had met on a Black Sea beach while holidaying in the Crimea. The book was published in 2009, five years before the Russian takeover of the Crimea; anyone reading it today must be struck by the sad deterioration in the relations between Russians and Ukrainians.