A newly released Kindle version of my celebrated novel-in-flashes. An Extended Edition.
A mordant dreamer, the protagonist of this first novel is deliciously at odds with his comrades in Russia; in college, the son of Jewish refugees disses a Chechen brute and barely escapes a mugging. ... this soulful tale about a perpetual outsider marks a debut well worth celebrating. --People Magazine
A mordant dreamer, the protagonist of this first novel is deliciously at odds with his comrades in Russia; in college, the son of Jewish refugees disses a Chechen brute and barely escapes a mugging. ... this soulful tale about a perpetual outsider marks a debut well worth celebrating.
--People Magazine
From School Library Journal
This debut novel presented in brief stories of fewer than 1000 words is a semiautobiographical account of a Russian Jewish immigrant, Alex, from his childhood in Communist Russia during the 1950s through the present day when he is in his midfifties, settled in Upstate New York with a wife and two daughters. Snapshots of Alex are presented as he goes through typical schoolboy antics and falls in love at an early age with his cousin Annie, whose family has moved to America. Alex goes to college, works briefly as a movie extra, is enlisted in the military, and finally marries a doctor named Lyuba, who reminds him of Annie. They immigrate to America in the 1980s, and he finally gets to meet Annie, who has no idea about his long-standing obsession with her. Against a backdrop of such historical events as the demise of Soviet communism, Alex deals with losing his job, raising children, and struggling with a writing career. There is little character development and even less plot or intrigue in this sketchy record of events. The novel reads more like a family blog and offers few tangible rewards.—David A. Beronä, Plymouth State Univ., NH
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