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...



