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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The main character is a (partly) black Jewish girl from Siberia, who's overweight and doesn't fit in. It is the story of how she grows up, gets pregnant, leaves Russia as a mail-order bride and makes a new life in the United States. A very entertaining story. I found the main character to be highly likeable. (  )umkaaaa | Mar 18, 2009 |   HarvReviewer | Feb 21, 2009 | A wonderfully realistic picture of Russian immigrants. (  )Clara53 | Feb 10, 2009 | bostonbibliophile | Jan 7, 2009 | Sasha Goldberg's father Victor, leaves her and her mother for America. Their life in Asbestos 2, Siberia is grim. Victor was adopted by an intelletual Jewish couple, the illegitimate child of a Russian and African. Sasha's 'otherness' makes life complicated in Asbestos 2. When she is 15, she has a baby, and then leaves for America as a mail order bride. She takes off before her marriage, and goes on a mission to find her father. (  )robertainez | Jan 2, 2009 | 0.054 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0670038199, Hardcover)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. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:17 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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