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Polostan (Bomb Light, #1)
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The turn of the century communist historical fiction I didn’t know I needed.
Neal Stephenson is an auto-read author for me. He publishes and I read. So I picked this up without even reading the book blurb and went in fresh and I was totally delighted to find a historical fiction book about a young woman in the 1930s. I LOVE American and RUssian history and geopolitics of this time so this book was perfect for me.
SPOILIES
This book is about a 17 year old girl from Russia, named Dawn, who was born in Bolshevik Russia who careens into an adventure that takes her to the US, to the Bonus Army march on DC. hanging out with Wobblies and General Patton, assembling Tommy Guns all under the watchful eye of an FBI agent named Silent Al. After going through the World’s Fair in Chicago, she gets pregnant, miscarriages and then goes to court for being a witch in North Dakota. She breaks out of jail, Tommy Guns some evil religious fanatics and escapes back to Russia as a girl named Aurora. There she is tortured by the secret police of the Soviets and is then installed as a soviet spy. It had a LOT of plot and I loved it all. My favorite part was all the history. Highly recommend it. I’ll be reading the next.
Neal Stephenson is an auto-read author for me. He publishes and I read. So I picked this up without even reading the book blurb and went in fresh and I was totally delighted to find a historical fiction book about a young woman in the 1930s. I LOVE American and RUssian history and geopolitics of this time so this book was perfect for me.
SPOILIES
This book is about a 17 year old girl from Russia, named Dawn, who was born in Bolshevik Russia who careens into an adventure that takes her to the US, to the Bonus Army march on DC. hanging out with Wobblies and General Patton, assembling Tommy Guns all under the watchful eye of an FBI agent named Silent Al. After going through the World’s Fair in Chicago, she gets pregnant, miscarriages and then goes to court for being a witch in North Dakota. She breaks out of jail, Tommy Guns some evil religious fanatics and escapes back to Russia as a girl named Aurora. There she is tortured by the secret police of the Soviets and is then installed as a soviet spy. It had a LOT of plot and I loved it all. My favorite part was all the history. Highly recommend it. I’ll be reading the next.
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