A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir follows a young girl growing up in the Soviet Union of the 1960s as she slowly uncovers the gap between official slogans and everyday reality. Her homeland is no longer the grand Russia of classic literature, but a country fighting to maintain its power and pride.

Drawn to the richness and freedom of the English language, she discovers that such an interest can be seen as subversive. At home, she wrestles with an overprotective mother whose demands and expectations echo the authority of the state, creating a double struggle for independence.

As the tension between mother and daughter intensifies, the narrator realizes that to find her voice and future, she may have to leave both her family and her country behind. The memoir offers a vivid portrait of Soviet family life, the pressures of conformity, and the risks of curiosity in a tightly controlled society.

Readers who enjoy:

• Coming-of-age memoirs set behind the Iron Curtain
• Personal stories of life in the Soviet Union
• Accounts of language, identity, and self-discovery

will find this an intimate and haunting elegy to a lost childhood world.

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