Quotes Tagged With :brookyln

Sunset was just then settling over Red Square. There seemed some hidden vision to be gleaned. A message....

My mother had been in the Soviet whirlpool for eleven years by this point. Enough time, I imagine, to....

She was arriving at a revelation that the secret to living was simply forgetting

From the moment Julian entered the world, Florence had begun to conceive of life as separate from the....

Florence, listen to me carefully. He squeezed her hand. Take whatever that agent offers you. Give him....

The Bolshevik leaders perched atop the Mausoleum were no easier to tell apart than chess pawns. But Florence....

Our communists aren’t like your communists. In New York they’re always on the street demonstrating,....

Their courtship unfolded in two settings, a Russian reality overlaid with New York memories

Florence imagined the Hammer and Sickle metallurgical plant to be an enormous brick factory like the....

Only then, as she prepared to cross the avenue, did she again spot the man in the fedora hat. He was....