My mother had been in the Soviet whirlpool for eleven years by this point. Enough time, I imagine, to unlearn the bourgeois habits of her native Brooklyn, to accustom herself to the farting and shouting of her neighbours, to doing her washing by hand in the collective tub, to keeping her dry food locked up in her wardrobe

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Sana Krasikov was a contemporary Ukrainian born writer in the united states. Sana Krasikov is a Ukrainian-born writer living in the United States, best known for One More Year (2008) and The Patriots (2017). She grew up in the Republic of Georgia, as well as the United States. Read more on Wikipedia →

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