Black Water & Tulips tells the story of a brave and tortured woman, and a difficult mother-daughter relationship set in the perilous waters of Cold War espionage. "Chilling moments of darkness and delicious moments of light," writes Sara Mansfield Taber, "competed for ascendance in my relationship with my mother. Their flipping back and forth would haunt me and yank at my spirits from my birth onward. In my first three decades,...