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| "A Terrible Country" A novel by Keith Gessen | At first, Keith Gessen's "A Terrible Country" reminded me a lot of his first novel "All the Sad, Young Literary Men." Instead of a book about three highly educated young American men searching for love and career success, it was about one (sort of young, but not really) American man searching for love and career success.
I would have been completely happy if that was all the book turned out to be. Gessen's feckless characters charm me.
But in this case, the main character, Russian-American Andrei, settles in Moscow to coax tales of Soviet life from his grandmother so he can publish a paper and score a job at an American university. It doesn't go well, and along his hapless journey, you get a glimpse of life in "the terrible country" and an incisive examination of what makes Russians Russian.
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| | 'Help Me!' documents a year of self-help books | | "Help Me! One Woman's Quest to Find Out if Self-Help Really Can Change Your Life" by Marianne Power |
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Marianne Power decided to read one self-help book a month, for a year — and follow the advice in each, to the letter. She says it became a much more intense undertaking than she'd anticipated.
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