false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172758809m/213185.jpg 213185 3 Sasha Goldberg is the ultimate outsider: she’s a chubby, biracial Jewish girl from the Siberian town of Asbestos 2. Her father takes off for the United States, and leaves Sasha to navigate adolescence in a bleak apartment bloc with her overbearing mother. Sasha falls in love with an art school drop-out who lives inside a concrete pipe in the town dump. Following her heart gets her into trouble at home, so she flees Russia as a mail-order bride and lands in suburban Arizona. Sasha manages to escape her Red Lobster-loving fiancé and embarks on a misadventure-filled journey across America in search of her father. Anya Ulinich has crafted an unforgettable story of familial fault lines, cross-cultural confusion, and the beguiling allure of new beginnings. Petropolis is a funny and poignant debut marking the arrival of a major new voice in fiction. 206369 15 2 2007 Petropolis total:358|5:64|4:162|3:96|2:31|1:5| 358 1323 592 92 5 3 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 12:54:04 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 08 13:19:27 -0800 2008
It's no secret that I'm a fan of novels that use international travel as the core of their story; and one of t...more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Feb 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 13:32:01 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 21:27:57 -0800 2008 Well, I always think i have a weakness for books about Russian immigrants, Russian-Americans, or other Eastern Europeans in America. However, i've noticed a trend lately among contemporary novels written by Young Russian Immigrants or Young Americans of Russian Descent. The trend consists of b...more...]]> 0 1 false false Wed Dec 19 08:36:20 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 19 08:36:47 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 14:04:38 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 11:55:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 14 14:09:03 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 03:48:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 22:39:33 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 22:45:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 20:01:16 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 20:15:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 21:38:54 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 19:15:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 19:13:37 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 10:25:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 09:51:28 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 12:15:57 -0700 2008
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so i finished this book and i really liked it! i was right, it just gets better and better! i could really relate to the immigrant experience...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Aug 27 06:44:19 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 06:49:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Apr 22 15:08:10 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 15:12:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 09:10:21 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 09:16:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 29 14:52:24 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 16:56:33 -0700 2008 I wrote a review of Petropolis elsewhere. This is part of it:

I don't know if I can get recommend Petropolis. This isn't to say that it wasn't a good book, but for a book written in English by an author approximately as American as I am, the text is littered with contextless Russia...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 01 13:15:50 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 02 10:02:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=213185