Results for "The Odyssey" in Historical

The story of a fervent atheistic communist woman in Moscow who was denied entrance to medical school because she was Jewish. She applied to leave Russia and was denied, thus becoming a Refusenik. It describes her two-year tortuous struggle to leave, her humorous adjustment to American society, and her challenging journey to become a physician and learn what it meant to be Jewish. Her historian husband interweaves her life with the history of Soviet Russia and the Cold War period, including the fail of the Soviet Union.

Born in 1968 during the chaos of the Tet Offensive, he entered the world fighting for his life. Fragile and uncertain, his earliest days were shaped by war, separation, and the quiet strength of a grandmother who became his refuge. As Saigon fell in 1975, his family escaped on one of the last helicopters out of Vietnam leaving behind not only their homeland, but a younger brother and a piece of their hearts that could never be reclaimed. In America, survival took on a new meaning. No longer threatened by bombs, he faced poverty, isolation, and the struggle of growing up between two worlds.