Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Finalist for the German Book Award Favorite Read of the Year in the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal In her second novel, Russian-born Alina Bronsky gives readers a moving portrait of the devious limits of the will to survive.
The narrator of this rollicking family saga is the outrageously mischevious Rosa Achmetowna, whom The Millions calls one of the most fascinating women.