A Year Without Mom by Dasha Tolstikova
02 Sep, by in Memoir, Middle Grade Readers, Nonfiction, Russian, Russian American, Young Adult Readers
Dasha is 12. She lives in a four-room apartment in Moscow with her mother and her grandparents. Her father lives in Los Angeles. She would like a cat, but she's too allergic. One night, she overhears her grandmother assuring her mother: "She will be fine. We...