The Egypt In My Looking Glass
Yuri Kruman, 2014
Author House
192 pp.
ISBN-13: 9781491847763
Summary
Twenty-five years after their hellish emigration—thirty from their famous father's exodus—a sister and her brothers hear his voice again. All three have long since "made it" in the States, despite—maybe, because of—his abandonment.
Forced by his own divorce to question everything, Vlad reels and frolics to forget himself—and learn to live again. Skirt-chasing author Mark, seething with writer's block, commits himself to marry by a verbal slip. Alla's precocious children prod her to examine who she is and why. A sleazy cousin—Tolik, hopeless Brighton product—is about to score his one big hit, again. His brother, Boris, now religious, struggles to transcend his past.
A family get-together threatens to ignite their old resentments. Edouard Yablonskiy, freshly minted dissident, has one last chance to make amends. His three grown children now must choose—to exit their own Egypt and forgive or let the past demand their satisfaction.