Written in the style of a memoir, this is a novel about Joseph Stalin's only daughter, who defected to the US.
Perhaps due to the memoir style, there is a lot of "telling" rather than "showing", and the narrative feels very disjointed, hopping from one thing to the next and only briefly detailing important events in Svetlana's life that could have been used to really flesh out the characters and story.
I was really hoping this novel would give me great insight into a historical figure and subject matter I don't know much about but I feel like it didn't tell me much more than I could have learned from reading Svetlana's Wikipedia page.
Advanced review copy from publisher via NetGalley. My opinions are my own.
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