The death of the head of the family, Evan who adored his two adult daughters, Meredith and Nina, and his Russian wife Anya rocks this family into understanding one another better. Evan had his daughters promise to get their mother to tell them again the elaborate fairy tales she used to tell them as children. Nina jumps on this and convinces her mother to tell the stories and eventually Nina understands that they are actual stories of her mother’s life in Leningrad during World War II. Nina and Meredith decide to try and get the whole truth out of her. To see that their mother had an entirely different life than they could have imagined, Meredith and Nina come to terms with the love that Anya has for a former lover, their father, and even themselves. This is a little laughter and a little tear-jerker of a book that brings a family closer together.
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