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Good. Minimal signs of wear. Corners and cover may show wear. May contain highlighting and or writing. May be missing dust jacket. May not include supplemental materials. May be a former library book.
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Good. pp. 320. Trade Paperback with only minor reading wear; light staining to front cover, otherwise book is clean, unmarked. In stock. Ships from MN, USA.
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Good. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).
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Very Good. Very Good condition. (Jews, Ukraine, refugees, autobiographies) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Very good. ix, [3], 307, [1] pages. Occasional footnotes. Includes Author's Note, Prologue, Epilogue, and Acknowledgments. Part 1 includes The Best Parades in the Whole Damn World; The Black Witch Comes to Kharkov; Oleg and the Mirror; Disarming the Adversaries; A Marked Mikhail Will Destroy Russia; Something Was Missing; Something Was in the Air; Land of Endless Twilight; $130, Two Suitcases, One Piece of Jewelry, Nothing of Value; Into the Steppe. Part 2 includes Dozens of Sentinel Grandmas; When People Have No Names; The Forester; Waking the Nomads; Pennies and Peach Slices; A Layover in Purgatory; Eva; A Bleak, Man-Made Horizon; Nineteen Million in the Hole; The Bosnians Don't Come Out at Night; A Simple Request. Part 3 includes This Ain't Ellis Island; Refugee Sponsorship for Dummies; Where Else Does She Belong? Unfinished Business, Part 1: Getting to America; Where the Weak are Killed and Eaten; There Are No Cats in America; Where Am I and Why Do I Smell Like Bananas? Unfinished Business, Part 2, Staying in America; Alicia; One Man, One Jacket; Kilcoyne. Mr. Golinkin, a graduate of Boston College, came to the US as a child refugee from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov (now called Kharkiv) in 1990. His op-eds and essays on the Ukraine crisis have appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and Time, among others; he has been interviewed by WSJ Live and HuffPost Live. In the twilight of the Cold War, nine-year-old Lev Golinkin and his family cross the Soviet border with only ten suitcases, six hundred dollars, and the vague promise of help waiting in Vienna. Years later, Lev, now an American adult, sets out to retrace his family's long trek, and locate and say thank you to the strangers who fought for his freedom. A thrilling tale of escape and survival, Golinkin's memoir is also a deeply personal look at the life of a Jewish child caught in the last gasp of the Soviet Union, and a provocative contemporary investigation into the power of hatred and the search for belonging. Derived from a Kirkus review: An ex-Iron Curtain refugee-turned-American citizen tells the emotional story of how he and his parents fled the Ukraine two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Golinkin was 11 years old when he and his family went into exile. They were among thousands of other Jews seeking political asylum and an end to the anti-Semitism that they and their ancestors before them had been forced to endure. The family was secular; however, that fact did nothing to protect them from harassment and social oppression. The trauma ran so deep that Golinkin developed a severe case of self-hatred that haunted him into adulthood. The family's path away from the Soviet Union took them to Vienna, where two American Jewish aid organizations assisted them and other refugees in beginning the long process toward finding homes in Israel and the West. The family encountered an Austrian baron named Peter. Driven by anguish over his father's Nazi past, Peter helped get Golinkin's father a temporary job to rebuild lost work credentials and prepare him for future gainful employment rather than a life condemned to "delivering pizzas and driving taxis." Eventually, the family settled in West Lafayette, Indiana, where Golinkin's sister was accepted into the Purdue graduate engineering program even though she, like her father, had been stripped of all credentials. Meanwhile, the author rejected every aspect of his former life, including his faith and language, and chose to go to a Roman Catholic college in Boston. Yet ironically, it was in this most un-Jewish of settings where he would begin the process of breaking through years of accumulated anger, pain and rage and accepting himself as a Jew. Golinkin impacts readers with the force of his unflinching honesty. An affecting chronicle of a journey to discover that "you can't have a future if you don't have a past.".