Three generations of Russian/Jewish women during turbulent times lean upon their hearts, their fate, their courage.It begins with the early 30's in Odessa Ukraine between Edward and Daria a married couple.
A couple for which Daria's mother seemed more pleased of the union than Daria who married more for money than love.
As time went on we learn Edward wanted to control Daria and she relented to the point of falling in love with another man.
When Edward learned of this he ended his own life resulting in a father in law blaming and punishing her.
From this point on I felt the story became lost a little interest for me personally but it was still well written and flowed but I wasn't as invested.
We move away from this scene to the 70's involving Natasha in Odessa who wanted to study Math at Odessa University but was refused for being Jewish under Soviet Rule.
This leads to complications involving two dangerous men on a new path.
It also leads to emigration for Dima whose involved with a man named Boris; risking it all for her.
As it winds down we end up in Brighton Beach in 2019 with a wish to outrun happiness.
All in all it wasn't bad but for me I would've loved it to be all one story based on the first relationship (Edward, Daria,Adam) as the others seemed to take away from the story.
Thank you to Alina, the publisher, NetGalley, and Kindle for this ARC in exchange for this honest review.
As a Polish woman myself with a Ukranian Grandmother and a father who refused to say he was Polish but rather Russian it was quite an interesting read and I'm thrilled that 'Babushka' was mentioned because it was a great tradition to have this hair net worn daily when going outdoors. Many things mentioned brought me back to a much easier time without the daily madness seen today and it was refreshing to go back and revisit.
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