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A mountain of crumbs : a memoir
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- ISBN: 9781439125687 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1439125686 (pbk.)
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308 p., [8] p. of plates : ill ; 22 cm. - Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2011, c2009.
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| General Note: | Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2009. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Dawson Creek Municipal Public Library | 947 GOR (Text) | DCL177456 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-05-08 |
| Fernie Heritage Library | BIO GOR (Text) | 35136000281528 | Adult Non Fic | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Quesnel Branch | 947.21085092 GOR (Text) | 33923004856195 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
Elena Gorokhovas A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a Soviet girl who discovers the truths adults are hiding from her and the lies her homeland lives by. Elenas country is no longer the majestic Russia of literature or the tsars, but a nation struggling to retain its power and its pride. Born with a desire to explore the world beyond her borders, Elena finds her passion in the complexity of the English languagebut in the Soviet Union of the 1960s such a passion verges on the subversive. Elena is controlled by the state the same way she is controlled by her mother, a mirror image of her motherland: overbearing, protective, difficult to leave. In the battle between a strong-willed daughter and her authoritarian mother, the daughter, in the end, must break free and leave in order to survive.
