RaveBookforumMotherland offers a view of humanity that is terrible but also recognizable ... A feminist history of modern Russia, but it is also a work of feminist philosophy and the fruit of a powerful woman’s particular, exacting conception of what a woman ought to be.
PositiveBookforumSvelte ... Slim, elegant ... Sleek ... Anna and Tom are not fully drawn people, and the little sense we have of them is not admirable or interesting. But they aren’t supposed to be likable. Anna and Tom are Latronico’s chosen tool for exploring a state of being. They force us to grapple with our own relationship with our origins, our loyalties, our apathies—and that is what he intended.
