Kaplun, Maria

Overview "This bildungsroman is about the search for and the meaning of identity, about the essence of culture, and, as any human pursuit, about love and death. Dinah Ash is a Russian Jewish ballerina, who grows up in the late Soviet Union and moves to the U.S. to escape the rising tide of antisemitism as her civilization is collapsing. Having lost her fiancé to the Afghanistan war and her grandmother to lymphoma, she is alone in a strange land, soon to discover she is losing ballet, too, to...