A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir
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A compelling memoir--hilarious and heartbreaking (The New York Times)--of two intertwined journeys: a Jewish refugee family in Ukraine fleeing persecution and a young man seeking to reclaim a shattered past In the twilight of the Cold War (the late 1980s), nine-year old Lev Golinkin and his family cross the Soviet border, leaving Ukraine with only ten suitcases, $600, and the vague promise of help awaiting in Vienna. Years later,...
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