Alternating between Florence’s and Julian’s perspectives, it is at once a mother-son story and a tale of two countries bound in a dialectic dance a love story and a spy story both a grand, old-fashioned epic and a contemporary novel of ideas. The Patriots is a riveting evocation of the Cold War years, told with brilliant insight and extraordinary skill. What he discovers is both chilling and heartbreaking: an untold story of what happened to a generation of Americans abandoned by their country. His work in the oil industry takes him on frequent visits to Moscow, and when he learns that Florence’s KGB file has been opened, he arranges a business trip to uncover the truth about his mother, and to convince his son, Lenny, who is trying to make his fortune in the new Russia, to return home. Many years later, Florence’s son, Julian, will make the opposite journey, immigrating back to the United States. But once in Russia, she quickly becomes entangled in a country she can’t escape. When the Great Depression hits, Florence Fein leaves Brooklyn College for what appears to be a plum job in Moscow-and the promise of love and independence. The novel alternates between her story the story of her son, Julian, from his time in the orphanage to his emigration to the States with his family as a Refusenik and his eventual return to Moscow as an oil executive to investigate his mother's past and the story of Julian's son Lenny, an American entrepreneur who is excited about the financial opportunities to be found in the new Russian marketplace.A sweeping multigenerational debut novel about idealism, betrayal, and family secrets that takes us from Brooklyn in the 1930s to Soviet Russia to post-Cold War America Soon after, Florence is sent to a work camp and her son to an orphanage.
There, she falls in love with another expatriate American and has a son. At City College she becomes engaged politically with the left-leaning student groups, and eventually, in the midst of the Depression, she takes a job with a trade organization that has a position for her in Moscow. A debut novel by acclaimed story writer Sana Krasikov that examines the effects of the Cold War on three generations of one Jewish American family, from the 1930s to the present.įlorence Fein grows up in Brooklyn in the 1930s, in a family that is gaining a foothold in the middle class.
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