A review by flogigyahoo
The Patriots by Sana Krasikov

4.0

The Patriots by Sana Krasikov is a brilliant, complicated and long novel about the steps some Americans took early in the 1930's to live in a country seemingly of the future, idealistic, intelligent and free. Krasikov follows Florence Fein, a Jewish girl who travels to Russia to see by herself the realism of living in the Soviet Union, raising a family, working, being Jewish, but once there is very, very disappointed. She does indeed marry and have a son, but life in the Soviet Union during WWII is difficult and afterwards even worse. Krasikov's descriptions of life for Florence and her husband in Moscow is sad and of life in the Camps in Siberia simply heartbreaking. I cannot recommend this book although I myself liked it frequently, but just as frequently could not understand why the author had included certain sections--unless you are sincerely attached to large, commodious novels and the Soviet Union.