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Reviewed on September 15, 2013 | Fiction
We know about the immigrant experience from an American perspective, but Grjasnowa gives us a fresh, important understanding from the European perspective, showing how Christians, Muslims, and Jews, those ethnically German and those not, don't quite manage coexistence in contemporary Germany. Azerbaijan-born Grjasnowa was 12 when she moved there, so she speaks with authority, as does her heroine, Masha Kogan, who's fluent in five languages and wo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More