Title: Fascinating
Product review: This book, co-written by all 7 members of the Schecter family, describes the adventures that this family had while journalist Jerrold Schecter was stationed in Moscow in the early 1970s. It gives a particularly illuminating glimpse into living conditions for foreign families in the Soviet Union of those times. The children's descriptions of their school experiences are extremely interesting, since such information is not readily available elsewhere. Jerrold's contributions to the book tend to stick mostly to the political events behind the stories he was covering (ho hum), but Leona writes about life as an expat mother trying to deal with extraordinary circumstances. This book would be of interest to anyone contemplating ex-pat life with children or to students of Soviet social history.
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