Breaking Stalin's Nose by Eugene Yelchin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Kudos to author Eugene Yelchin for writing this story at a level that young adults can understand and realize how important it is to be free.

When I was a young girl my grandmother immigrated to the U.S. from the Ukraine.  She often told me about people she knew who had disappeared or she heard had been sent to Siberia. I didn't know what it meant although she tried to explain it to me.  Sometimes I thought she was telling me quirky stories because she was old.  Of course, now I know differently and reading this book helped to put it in a perspective that is easy to see what she was talking about.  She is gone now, but I still remember the stories.

Yelchin's novel is a very quick read, but very worthwhile.




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