A review by cherbear
A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir by Lev Golinkin

4.0

This was an incredibly moving memoir about a young Ukrainian-Jewish boy's journey to America and the various people who helped his family along the way. There were many little vignettes that I found very moving, such as what it's like to not speak the language of the country and how demeaning it can feel or the fantasy vs. the reality of America as imagined by immigrants and portrayed by the film "An American Tail". It was just a fascinating and very touching account of what it's like to have to leave the place of your birth and make your home somewhere unfamiliar.