Everything is Normal: The Life and Times of a Soviet Kid
Sergey Grechishkin, "Everything is Normal: The Life and Times of a Soviet Kid"
English | ISBN: 1942645902 | 2018 | 336 pages | EPUB | 910 KB
English | ISBN: 1942645902 | 2018 | 336 pages | EPUB | 910 KB
Everything is Normal 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, Everything is Normal 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.
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
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