You Are One of Them - Holt, Elliott
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Sarah and Jenny are best friends in Washington,DC, during the politically charged 1980s. As Cold War rhetoric escalates in1982, the two ten-year-olds write letters to Soviet premier Yuri Andropovasking for peace. Jenny's letter gets a response, and Sarah is left behind whenher friend accepts the Kremlin's invitation to visit and becomes aninternational media sensation. The girls' friendship still hasn't mended whenJenny and her parents die in a plane crash in 1985. Ten years later, Sarah getsa letter suggesting that Jenny's death might have been a hoax. In her search forthe truth, she delves…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Sarah and Jenny are best friends in Washington,DC, during the politically charged 1980s. As Cold War rhetoric escalates in1982, the two ten-year-olds write letters to Soviet premier Yuri Andropovasking for peace. Jenny's letter gets a response, and Sarah is left behind whenher friend accepts the Kremlin's invitation to visit and becomes aninternational media sensation. The girls' friendship still hasn't mended whenJenny and her parents die in a plane crash in 1985. Ten years later, Sarah getsa letter suggesting that Jenny's death might have been a hoax. In her search forthe truth, she delves into her personal Cold War history and attempts toseparate fact from propaganda.
Autorenporträt
Elliott Holt's short fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Guernica, and Bellevue Literary Review. She won a 2011 Pushcart Prize and is the runner-up of the 2011 PEN Emerging Writers Award. A graduate of the MFA program at Brooklyn College, where she won the Himan Brown Award, she has received fellowships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop and Yaddo. She is a former contributing editor at One Story magazine and a former copywriter, who has worked at advertising agencies in Moscow, London, and New York. She currently resides in her hometown of Washington, D.C.