Dreaming in Russian: A Memoir (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781510782129)

An insightful memoir delving deeply into the modern Russian immigrant experience.

A violent crime shattered Moscow native Anya Gillinson's world when she was thirteen years old, urging her family to leave Russia for the American dream. As a teenager raised in a deeply patriarchal Russian society, Anya found herself grappling with a fiercely independent America. Her candid and heartfelt memoir delves into the clash between these two cultures through the stories of her family. It explores how her upbringing in Russia, and the subsequent immigrant experience, shaped her sense of femininity - a concept with vastly different definitions on either side of the Atlantic. Dreaming in Russian pits the two competing identities of her immigrant self against one another. After over thirty years of living in America, in the grip of its indefatigable modernism, Gillinson has come to understand that her bones, brains, and womanhood remain deeply rooted in the soil of Russian patriarchy.

Anya's journey forces questions, yet in the end it leaves her without answers, but at least with a personal resolution - that three decades of living in America have brought her back to her Russian past, which forever predetermined her present and outlined her future.

Author: Anya Gillinson
ISBN-10: 1510782125
ISBN-13: 9781510782129
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2024
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.83w x 1.00d