There is no need for me to review Russian Tattoo because everyone else has. Just check Elena Gorokhova’s author page www.elenagorokhova.com Even legendary actors Alan Alda and F. Murray Abraham marched on her behalf.
I have my own passionate response to Russian Tattoo -- a potential blog title: “What color is my envy?” You see, envy can be white or black in Russian. So definitely “white” envy, the good kind. However, I covet her publicity, her publishing house and her fame. She also has a nice cover designer but so did we. Envy aside, our book was meant to inform and help our readers feel what it was like to grow up Jewish in the last half of the twentieth century in the USSR, and to follow the unusual choices of two very gutsy heroines – Vera and Alla. So Alan and F. Murray and all you Russo/bibliophiles, get your... 
In Book Club in a Box's interview of Jewish Luck co-authors Leslie Levine Adler and Meryll Levine Page, some intriguing questions are posed like, "What made you decide this story should be turned into a book? What was the writing process like, and how did it affect your relationship with each other? What was the biggest obstacle for these two women in Russia in the 1970s? And in the current day, what would you say are the biggest obstacles for women in Russia now?" And more.... Read the full interview in the Book Club in a Box website. 
Hal Sacks wrote a glowing review of Jewish Luck in an article called A remarkable memoir in the Jewish News of Southeastern Viriginia. 
