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Island Song

by Madeleine Bunting

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Jan 18, 2019 03:52AM

“Who is she, after all? Not a member of the Party. Not even a Russian...What can she do, really, but watch the ginger-haired sacrificial lamb get slaughtered? One wrong move and Florence herself might be on the chopping block herself”
― Sana Krasikov, The Patriots

tags: 20th-century-russia, america, based-on-a-true-story, based-on-real-events, brooklyn, communism, fiction, fiction-novel, love, motherhood, russian-literature, russian-revolution, soviet-literature, soviet-russia, soviet-union

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“She was arriving at a revelation that the secret to living was simply forgetting”
― Sana Krasikov, The Patriots

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“Florence could feel a constriction in her chest…She had been foolish enough to hope that whatever she was walking into would affect no one but herself. Now the truth was catching up with her at the speed of her galloping heartbeat…Now they had summoned her. And they knew everything”
― Sana Krasikov, The Patriots

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“Their courtship unfolded in two settings, a Russian reality overlaid with New York memories”
― Sana Krasikov

“My mother had been in the Soviet whirlpool for eleven years by this point. Enough time, I imagine, to unlearn the bourgeois habits of her native Brooklyn, to accustom herself to the farting and shouting of her neighbours, to doing her washing by hand in the collective tub, to keeping her dry food locked up in her wardrobe”
― Sana Krasikov, The Patriots