Anna G

Read it in eight hours, because my mother in law asked me to verify if any of it were true. I told her she now knows too much about my childhood and confessed I don't remember writing this book, but there it was. Under a pseudonym of Elena Gorokhova. just kidding - I am still Anna and she's still Galina and Galina wrote a great book that is fun and easy to read and shows how the soviet system makes you what you are. If you liked or bought this book, or thinking about buying this book, watch The Red Queen (2015). If you like the show, you will love the book. Other recommendations along the lines of A Mountain Of Crumbs will include Moscow on the Hudson with Robin Williams and East-West (1999) with Catherine Deneuve and Oleg Menshikov. All these are stories of brave people and their desperate attempts to escape the USSR regime and make their lives more than just existence and battle for survival. Galina is one of them.