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Panic in a Suitcase
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- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Release date: 07-31-14
- Language: English
- Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $24.47
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A dazzling debut novel about a immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream.
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If the Nasmertov parents can afford only to look forward, learning the rules of aspiration, the family's youngest, Frida, can only look back.
In striking, arresting prose loaded with fresh and inventive turns of phrase, Yelena Akhtiorskaya has written the first great novel of Brighton Beach: A searing portrait of hope and ambition and a profound exploration of the power and limits of language itself and its ability to make connections across cultures and generations.
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