John burnham schwartz

For fans of We Were the Lucky Ones and A Gentleman in Moscow , this sweeping historical novel and unexpected love story is inspired by the remarkable life of Svetlana Alliluyeva. In one of the most momentous events of the Cold War, Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of the infamous Soviet despot Joseph Stalin, abruptly abandoned her life in Moscow in , arriving in New York to throngs of reporters and a nation hungry to hear her story.

Persuading herself that all she yearns for is a simple American life, she attempts to settle into a suburban existence in Princeton, New Jersey. But one day an invitation from the widow of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright arrives, and Svetlana impulsively joins her cultlike community at Taliesin West. When this dream ends in disillusionment, Svetlana reaches out to Peter, the one person who understands how the chains of her past still hold her prisoner.

As a novel, The Red Daughter does exactly what good historical fiction should do: It sends you down the rabbit hole to read and learn more. Schwartz includes a great list of books that inspired him to write his novel and that readers might want to explore. An insightful and compelling saga of a woman desperately trying to escape her infamous past.

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The Red Daughter is a lustrous book. In these pages we watch a broken human try to piece herself back together, again and again. Her life was endlessly fascinating, often heartbreaking, and ultimately heroic.