Everything Is Normal - by Sergey Grechishkin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Told through the eyes of a boy growing up in Cold War era Saint Petersburg, <i>Everything is Normal</i> is a journey into the world of Soviet Russia--and how as his world falls apart his defiant love of Western pop culture eventually defeats the bleakness of his upbringing.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Everything is Normal</i> offers a lighthearted worm's-eye-view of the USSR through the middle-class Soviet childhood of a nerdy boy in the 1970s and '80s. A relatable journey into the world of the late-days Soviet Union, <i>Everything is Normal</i> is both a memoir and a social history--a reflection on the mundane deprivations and existential terrors of day-to-day life in Leningrad in the decades preceding the collapse of the USSR. <p/> Sergey Grechishkin's world is strikingly different, largely unknown, and fascinatingly unusual, and yet a world that readers who grew up in the United States or Europe during the same period will partly recognize. This is a tale of friendship, school, and growing up--to read <i>Everything is Normal</i> is to discover the very foreign way of life behind the Iron Curtain, but also to journey back into a shared past.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A wonderful, funny, and evocative account of growing up in the Soviet Union... Grechishkin is a major new talent and a writer of humor and verve." <b>--Luke Harding, author of #1 <i>New York Times</i> best-seller <i>Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win</i> </b> <p/> "Like walking through the looking-glass into 1970s-80s Leningrad... funny, shocking and occasionally even tender... prepare to be transported back to the CCCP." <b>--Lisa Dickey, author of <i>Bears in the Streets</i> </b> <p/> "A rare glimpse of life in Soviet Russia before and during perestroika. <i>Everything is Normal</i> is the tender and often funny story of a personal journey paralleled by seismic changes in the country itself. A captivating read." <b>--Elena Gorokhova, author of <i>Russian Tattoo</i> </b><br>
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