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A review by alismcg
The Patriots by Sana Krasikov
4.0
For those troubled by multiple timelines and more convoluted stories with hosts of characters, likely this particular book will not be for you.
For those with any historical interest in Milly Bennett’s journalistic writings or Western emigration of the 1920s and 30s due to inequality — as told in Julia Mickenberg’s “American Girls in Red Russia” — “The Patriots” may satisfy your HF leanings.
The setting alters in slight shifts but for the greater expanse of story spills out with color and dimension into Stalin’s Soviet Union / Putin’s Russia during the 1930s , 1950s and 2008 as Krasikov weaves and connects her telling of 3 generations of American Jewish expats.
Historical info and politics which Krasikov does share re. conditions in Soviet Union fully supported by research of prior NF reads on the era. A foul sort of bitterness for American politics — especially under FDR’s Presidency — (moves me to ahha ! , hmm and scratch my head wishing to delve a bit deeper... ). Such unravellings always delight the rat terrier who paws and scratches within my mind.
A bit more heavily weighted on the ‘too descriptive’ in the fiction /romance element of the story for my personal preference. That always steals from a story for me when tints of a writer’s indiscretions seep through. minus 1 ⭐️
For those with any historical interest in Milly Bennett’s journalistic writings or Western emigration of the 1920s and 30s due to inequality — as told in Julia Mickenberg’s “American Girls in Red Russia” — “The Patriots” may satisfy your HF leanings.
The setting alters in slight shifts but for the greater expanse of story spills out with color and dimension into Stalin’s Soviet Union / Putin’s Russia during the 1930s , 1950s and 2008 as Krasikov weaves and connects her telling of 3 generations of American Jewish expats.
Historical info and politics which Krasikov does share re. conditions in Soviet Union fully supported by research of prior NF reads on the era. A foul sort of bitterness for American politics — especially under FDR’s Presidency — (moves me to ahha ! , hmm and scratch my head wishing to delve a bit deeper... ). Such unravellings always delight the rat terrier who paws and scratches within my mind.
A bit more heavily weighted on the ‘too descriptive’ in the fiction /romance element of the story for my personal preference. That always steals from a story for me when tints of a writer’s indiscretions seep through. minus 1 ⭐️