Russian Tattoo

by Elena Gorokhova

Book Overview

Finalist for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing From the bestselling author of A Mountain of Crumbs, a "brilliant and illuminating" ( BookPage ) portrait of mothers and daughters that reaches from Cold War Russia to modern-day New Jersey to show how the ties that hold you back can also teach you how to start over. Elena Gorokhova moves to the US in her twenties to join her American husband and to break away from her mother, a mirror...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451689829
• ISBN13: 9781451689822
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"