![]() ![]() Pearl and her story stayed with me long after I reached the book’s final pages, and so I was eager to speak with the author, Aaron Hamburger who won the Rome Prize in Literature for his first book, The View from Stalin’s Head. The culture shock Pearl experiences during her journey forces her to confront her past and make profound choices that affect her future. ![]() The two women are desperate to get to America, but when discriminatory immigration laws get in their way, they head instead to Havana, Cuba.Īll this takes place during the time of Prohibition, when the island is flooded with American tourists eager to drink and indulge in various hedonistic pleasures. ![]() This richly detailed book, set in 1922, is the achingly beautiful story of Pearl, a sober young woman fleeing the chaos of the Russian Revolution with her lovestruck and romantic younger sister. ![]()
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