PRI’s The World has named USSR: Diary of a Perestroika Kid the #1 “book you should think about reading in 2016.”
Alina Simone calls it “the very best book I read this year” and “a kind of Soviet Catcher in the Rye.”
[A]t heart, this is a universal story about the petty humiliations and hard won triumphs of youth — the million tiny compromises that lie along the road to becoming yourself.
We couldn’t agree more. Help us make this the year of USSR!