Why did I love this book?
Most books about the USSR, World War II, and refugees, feature saintly people suffering in noble silence. Something Unbelievable reminds us that the Soviet citizens fleeing Communism and Nazis were all individuals, not one-dimensional ciphers. They were sometimes vain, sometimes selfish, sometimes bored, and sometimes frustrated. They were real, flesh and blood, petty, complicated human beings who lived through the unthinkable⌠while still managing to think about sex, romance, jealousy, and betrayal. The granddaughter in Something Unbelievable is moved to learn all this and more about her grandmotherâs evacuation to Asia during World War II. And so is the reader.
1 author picked Something Unbelievable as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
An overwhelmed new mom discovers unexpected parallels between life in twenty-first-century America and her grandmotherâs account of their familyâs escape from the Nazis in this sharp, heartfelt novel.
âA fresh perspectiveâone thatâs both haunting and hilariousâon dual-timeline war stories, a feat that only a writer of Kuznetsovaâs caliber could pull off.ââFiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue
Larissa is a stubborn, brutally honest woman in her eighties, tired of her home in Kiev, Ukraineâtired of everything really, except for her beloved granddaughter, Natasha. Natasha is tired as well, but thatâs because she just hadâŚ