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naiapard's review
5.0
I was not a fan of the title from the starters. It is a mouthful.
“People strode around confidently, no furtive slinking or trudging along with stooped shoulders. What an astonishing difference from what we had been used to all our lives: where our fellow Romanians, inured to the harsh conditions of life under Communism, wore ever-present and deeply carved worry lines on their faces, fearing that someone, anyone, might report you for whatever the reason and punishment was sure to follow.”
The memoir is the story of Aura Imbarus in her rebirth as a Romanian-American (how she arrived in America and found and re-found her roots there).
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