📚 BOOK OF THE WEEK: DISSIDENTS 📚 Disside...

📚 BOOK OF THE WEEK: DISSIDENTS 📚

Dissidents is my second published novel. It’s about an American teen who’s transplanted from the US to the Soviet Union in the late 1980’s, when his mother is appointed as the US ambassador there. I have always been fascinated by Russia, and Russian culture. When I wrote the book, I had never been there—although I did ask the publisher to send me. They just laughed and laughed.

Even so, I did exhaustive research to make the book authentic, including spending...