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This really should have been either a think piece article, a biography, or a how-to guide for immigrants, but the author did not commit to a format.

As it stands, it contained no new or valuable insights and far too much “choose to not be a victim��, “personal accountability��, and “pull yourself up by your bootstraps�� talk from an author who is the daughter of a Russian oil baron. The author hints at interesting experiences and I would have preferred to have read a biography than her personal opinion on identity. It was very much her own opinion based on only her experiences, which she acknowledged, but it came across pretty out of touch. She creates hypothetical immigrants and says what she thinks they would do and feel instead of interviewing and creating case studies of diasporas and how they create community and identity.

It was a short book but I don’t think there was enough substance here for even that. There were entire pages that were mostly long quotes from other books and paragraphs that were just lists of examples, rhetorical questions, or the aforementioned hypothetical scenarios.