An Immigrant's Song: on becoming myself - Softcover

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Growing up Jewish in the Soviet Union, a girl affectionately called Ellochka dreamed of escaping a world of conformity, censorship, and carefully guarded family secrets. In 1977, as a young woman, she finally did—leaving her country and her family behind to begin a new life in America.

Freedom changed the course of her life, but it could not erase the landscape of memory. Decades later, looking back at the family she left behind, the Soviet world that shaped her, and the choices that carried her across an ocean, she discovered that becoming free and becoming oneself are not quite the same thing.

An Immigrant’s Song is a deeply personal memoir about growing up Jewish in the Soviet Union, immigration to America, family, identity, and the complicated inheritance of the past. Moving between pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union, and the immigrant experience in the United States, the book follows one woman’s journey as she seeks to understand where she came from and how the past continued to shape her choices, relationships, and sense of self.

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