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Title My mother's secret : a novel of the Jewish Autonomous Region / Alina Adams.
Author Adams, Alina, author.
Publication Info. [Roseville, Minnesota] : [History Through Fiction], [2022]
©2022
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 Chickasaw  FIC ADA    Check Shelves
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 Washington Park  FIC ADA    Check Shelves
Description 310 pages ; 23 cm
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Note Issued also as an ebook.
Summary As her revolutionary neighbor mysteriously disappears during Josef Stalin's Great Terror purges, 18-year-old Regina suspects that she's the Kremlin's next target. Under cover of the night, she flees from her parents' communal apartment in 1930s Moscow to the 20th century's first Jewish state, Birobidzhan, on the border between Russia and China. Once there, Regina has to grapple with her preconceived notions of socialism and Judaism while asking herself the eternal question: What do we owe each other? How can we best help one another? While she contends with these queries and struggles to help Birobidzhan establish itself, love and war are on the horizon.
Subject Jewish women -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Jews -- Soviet Union -- History -- Fiction.
Birobidzhan (Russia) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Soviet Union -- History -- German occupation, 1941-1944 -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Genre Historical fiction.
ISBN 9781736499030 (pb) : $17.95
1736499033
9781736499023 (hc)
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