"Lewycka is a natural writer, a humorist with a light touch who draws the reader in to a family feud that is utterly funny but also stricken with plaintive sadness over the effects of war and inequity on human relationships. "This novel of ruts and progress, ease and horror, assumption and suspicion, yields a golden harvest of family truths." - The Daily Telegraph. "he charming, poignantly funny first novel by Marina Lewycka, a daughter of Ukrainian immigrants." - The Washington Post. "Not enough here to reinvigorate an old, old story." - Kirkus Reviews. "Drawing on her own family, Lewycka has created a funny, tender, and intelligent novel that is as much social history as family saga. "'I had thought this story was going to be a knockabout farce, but now I see it is developing into a knockabout tragedy,' Nadezhda says at one point, and though she is referring to Valentina, she might also be describing this unusual and poignant novel." - Publishers Weekly.
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