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Title: a most unusual and enlightening memoir
Review: A fascinating and well-written story of a young child being taken by her communist parents out of the USA during the height of the anti-communist hysteria, living first furtively in Mexico, then Prague, Czechoslovakia under an assumed identity -- interspersed with some years in a China at the brink of the "cultural Revolution" -- and how the return of the family to America had to be orchestrated. It recounts how the intelligent idealistic parents - and then the author herself in her teen years - were deluded into believing communist states really promised a more just society, until disillusionment set in. I also found it very interesting that the author, immersed into a Czech society and schools, considered herself almost more Czech than American (while her parents hardly learned the Czech language). Her love of Prague is very poignant to me, since my family lived there when I was 5 to 12 in the 1930s, escaping the Nazis just before WW2 started.
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