Everything Is Normal: The Life and Times of a Soviet Kid

Everything is Normal offers a lighthearted worm's-eye-view of the USSR through the middle-class Soviet childhood of a nerdy boy in the 1970s and '80s. A relatable journey into the world of the late-days Soviet Union, Everything is Normal is both a memoir and a social history--a reflection on the mundane deprivations and existential terrors of day-to-day life in Leningrad in the decades preceding the collapse of the USSR.

Sergey Grechishkin's world is strikingly different, largely unknown, and fascinatingly unusual, and yet a world that readers who grew up in the United States or Europe during the same period will partly recognize. This is a tale of friendship, school, and growing up--to read Everything is Normal is to discover the very foreign way of life behind the Iron Curtain, but also to journey back into a shared past.

Author: Sergey Grechishkin
Publisher: Inkshares
Published: 03/27/2018
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.60w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781942645900
ISBN10: 1942645902
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional | General
- Family & Relationships | Life Stages | Adolescence
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs