Larissa Miller's memoir recounts her childhood in postwar Moscow, with reminiscences about her mother, a major journalist under Stalin, and of her father killed in World War II; the discovery of her Jewish identity; her first love; and reflections on the nature of literature and art. Her life has been closely connected with all the major events of the age which she relates with sober tenderness and insight.
"[ Larissa] Miller recalls what it was like to come of age as a Jewish girl during Stalin's anti-cosmopolitan campaigns and beyond. . . . Despite the taunts and the insults, despite her feeling that pogroms could begin any moment, she remains resilient and undaunted."—The Forward
Miller recalls what it was like to come of age as a Jewish girl during Stalin's anti-cosmopolitan campaigns.
