A review by babsellen
A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir by Lev Golinkin

5.0

A gripping memoir that brings you inside the Soviet Union, experiencing its final days as a Ukrainian Jew in the late 1980s. All this through the eyes and feelings of a boy, age 6-10. The author takes you on his family's harrowing escape to Vienna and ultimately to the promise of America. Meet interesting characters along the way, and most of all experience how the scars of the past manifest themselves in an immigrant's life.