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Petropolis / Anya Ulinich.
Van Pelt Library PS3621.L44 P48 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ulinich, Anya, 1973-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenage mothers--Fiction.
- Teenage mothers.
- Emigration and immigration--Fiction.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Bildungsromans.
- Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 324 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, 2007.
- Summary:
- Sasha Goldberg is the ultimate outsider: she's a chubby, biracial Jewish girl from the Siberian town of Asbestos 2. Her father takes off for the United States, and leaves Sasha to navigate adolescence in a bleak apartment bloc with her overbearing mother. Sasha falls in love with an art school drop-out who lives inside a concrete pipe in the town dump. Following her heart gets her into trouble at home, so she flees Russia as a mail-order bride and lands in suburban Arizona. Sasha manages to escape her Red Lobster-loving fianc? and embarks on a misadventure-filled journey across America in search of her father.
- Anya Ulinich has crafted an unforgettable story of familial fault lines, cross-cultural confusion, and the beguiling allure of new beginnings. "Petropolis" is a funny and poignant debut marking the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.
- ISBN:
- 0670038199
- 9780670038190
- OCLC:
- 70335311
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