The Russian Writer's Daughter

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. THE RUSSIAN WRITER'S DAUGHTER is a collection of lively autobiographical stories about growing up in a Russian-American Jewish household in the stifling political atmosphere of the Red Scare. At the center of these memories is Lyduce's father, whose complex personality mixes a passion for social justice, the desire to protect his family, and intellectual snobbery. In this revelatory memoir, international politics shadow a child's gradual awakening to her father's humanity. As she tells her family's story, Rosner shows how complicated autobiography can be, more a matter of pursuing the truth than asserting it.