The Snake in the Vodka Bottle ― Life Stories from Post-soviet Lithuania Twenty Years After the Collapse of Communism

Laima Vince returns to post-Soviet Lithuania twenty years after independence, and twenty years since she had participated in the singing revolution, to rediscover the nation that had played such a central role in her family's fate. The stories told in THE SNAKE IN THE VODKA BOTTLE illuminate one woman's odyssey through the Baltic States' troubled history and uncertain future. Spending time with village verbal healers, trafficked teenage girls, activist social workers, Chechen refugees and their Ambassador in Exile, and the unsung heroes and dissidents of the Cold War era, Laima Vince uncovers a spectrum of authentic voices.