New York: Riverhead Books, 2014. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel - the story of two decades in the life of a Russian immigrant family living in Brighton Beach - Brooklyn - and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream, when the dissolution of the Soviet Union makes returning just a matter of a plane ticket, and the Russian-owned shops in their adopted neighborhood stock even the most obscure comforts of home. 307 pp. ISBN: 978-1594632143.