- Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Russian Americans, Fiction, family life
Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesn’t know her mother? From the author of the smash-hit bestseller Firefly Lane and True Colors comes a powerful, heartbreaking novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the enduring links between the present and the past.
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Earnest, grave, overwhelming and bleak.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 448
- Publisher
- The House of Books, Świat Książki, Brilliance Audio
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- Polish, Dutch, English
- ISBN
- 9781522652922
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