This is an absolutely gorgeous book. I knew it was autobiographical and memoire together about a Russian immigrant experience but I didn't know much more. Immigrant experience and memoire is another one of the genres I will always read. My grandmother was Ukrainian and Orthodox Christian then Catholic, so I was curious about this book with the Russian dolls on the cover.
Bess' grandmother is an Russian Jewish woman, lol-- my grandmother worked in a Jewish deli. If you have a strong ethnic maternal figure in your life you will belly laugh with this book. It is sweet, it is bittersweet, and it is sad. I loved it.
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