Free World

Resumen del libro

It is the summer of 1978, and the Krasnansky family, recently emigrated from Riga, Latvia, former citizens of the Soviet Union, bickering, tired and somewhat confused, are supposed to be passing through. Alongside thousands of other Soviet Jewish refugees among them criminals, dissidents and refuseniks they await passage to their new homes in the West. But escaping Communism is not so easy, especially when some of the Krasnanskys insist on bringing it with them along with all sorts of other baggage and even more so when their sponsor in the USA lets them down and they find that they're no longer passing through at all. On the contrary, they're stuck.