A review by lgmelcher
The Patriots by Sana Krasikov

4.0

If you are looking for a book about what motivates people to make seemingly illogical choices, this will be a great read. I was both challenged and entertained by this multi-generational tale about Americans who emigrated to the Soviet Union before WWII, and their children who came back to America decades later. It taught me about the fate of Americans whose citizenship was summarily dismissed as a political maneuver, which was fascinating. As much as I enjoyed it, I felt certain parts dragged without an ultimate payoff, and I was irritated by historical inaccuracies like the description of a mourner at a funeral playing tunes from Fiddler on the Roof, which was written 20 years after the funeral in the book takes place. All in all, I did enjoy it and would recommend it to anyone with an interest in historical fiction about the Soviet Union or Russian-American political relations. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC in return for an honest review.