num_pages: 232
description: In a journal format, a young Latvian girl chronicles her adventures growing up in Latvia during the break-up of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Against a background of social and political turmoil, the narrator survives school and university, an American religious cult, and the Russian disco scene.
language: English
title: Tale of the White Crow: Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Latvia
titlecomplete: Tale of the White Crow: Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Latvia
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Ellis Press