num_pages: 324
description: Sasha Goldberg is the ultimate outsider: she's a chubby, biracial Jewish girl from the Siberian town of Asbestos 2. Her father takes off for the United States, and leaves Sasha to navigate adolescence in a bleak apartment bloc with her overbearing mother. Sasha falls in love with an art school drop-out who lives inside a concrete pipe in the town dump. Following her heart gets her into trouble at home, so she flees Russia as a mail-order bride and lands in suburban Arizona. Sasha manages to escape her Red Lobster-loving fiancé and embarks on a misadventure-filled journey across America in search of her father.  Anya Ulinich has crafted an unforgettable story of familial fault lines, cross-cultural confusion, and the beguiling allure of new beginnings. Petropolis is a funny and poignant debut marking the arrival of a major new voice in fiction.
language: English
title: Petropolis
titlecomplete: Petropolis
genres: Coming Of Age, Graphic Novels, The United States Of America, Jewish, Russia, Novels, Young Adult, Humor, Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 1365
awards: awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Sami Rohr Prize
category: Jewish Literature
publisher: Viking