Review: First Rate Memoir
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 4, 2013
I loved this coming of age story set during Russia's perestroika period. Author Julia Gousseva writes with the confident hand of someone who witnessed the events up close. Everything is here from the turbulent period in Russian history, from the opening of a new McDonalds in Moscow to the rumblings of tanks as the Eastern bloc started to collapse and fragment into revolution, all told through the eyes of a teenage girl thirsting to see the world. I recommend this to anyone who likes a good coming of age story and is interested in all things Russian.