Alexandra Retana

Looking for the Enter Sign (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A TALE OF PERSEVERANCE, SACRIFICE, AND HOPE

Sasha's childhood in Leningrad was happy, sheltered, and in may ways, privileged. But, in the fall of 1989, just as she finds herself on the brink of adolescence, her secure existence is pulled out from under her.

Amid the chaos caused by the impending collapse of the Soviet Union, her family joins the millions of Jews fleeing the country to seek asylum in the US.

Written with care, razor-sharp wit, and an eye for detail, Looking for the Enter Sign paints a heartwarming picture of a family in transit, tracing their steps from their home in Leningrad across Europe to their final destination in Boston. The book explores culture shock, belonging, Jewish identity in the Diaspora, and the meaning of family and friends in times of hardship. Most of all, Looking for the Enter Sign is a story about coming of age under uncertain circumstances, as every stop along Sasha's journey marks an increasing awareness of the baffling and sometimes cruel realities of a grown-up world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: And Why Not Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781393930853
• Artikelnr.: 60076692

Autorenporträt

Retana and her parents immigrated to the Greater Boston area in 1990 from her native St. Petersburg after travel restrictions were lifted in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. She attended Brandeis University as an undergraduate, and received her Doctor of Medicine degree from Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. Her clinical training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology was completed at Tufts University in Boston and the University of Massachusetts in Worcester.

Begun as a labor of love, Looking for the Enter Sign is not only a tribute to Retana's parents, but is also a missive to those who have not experienced the immigrant story and who might be touched by a different perspective.

Retana currently resides in Rhode Island as a practicing physician with her husband and two children.