"I Named My Dog Pushkin" Author Interview with Margarita Gokun Silver
Lovely Books
English - October 29, 2021 14:00 - 27 minutes - 19.3 MBBooks Arts books fiction non-fiction readers teachers authors literature mothers family educators Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this episode; freelance journalist, essayist, and novelist Margarita Goken Silver discusses her memoir, "I Named My Dog Pushkin". Her immigrant stories, told in essays, tells of the little known history of the 2nd Jewish Migration from the Soviet Union shortly before the fall of the Iron Curtain. Margarita tells a unique and often hilarious tale of coming of age and reinventing yourself in a new culture.