Sarah Zuckerman and Jennifer Jones are best
friends in an upscale part of Washington, D.C., in the politically
charged 1980s. Sarah is the shy, wary product of an unhappy home: her
father abandoned the family to return to his native England; her
agoraphobic mother is obsessed with fears of nuclear war. Jenny is an
all-American girl who has seemingly perfect parents. With Cold War
rhetoric reaching a fever pitch in 1982, the ten-year-old girls write
letters to Soviet premier Yuri Andropov asking for peace. But only
Jenny's letter receives a response, and Sarah is left behind when her
friend accepts the Kremlin's invitation to visit the USSR and becomes an
international media sensation. The girls' icy relationship still
hasn't thawed when Jenny and her parents die tragically in a plane crash
in 1985.
Ten years later, Sarah is about to graduate from college when she receives a mysterious letter from Moscow suggesting that Jenny's death might have been a hoax. She sets off to the former Soviet Union in search of the truth, but the more she delves into her personal Cold War history, the harder it is to separate facts from propaganda.
You Are One of Them is a taut, moving debut about the ways in which we define ourselves against others and the secrets we keep from those who are closest to us. In her insightful forensic of a mourned friendship, Holt illuminates the long lasting sting of abandonment and the measures we take to bring back those we have lost.
Read an interview with the author HERE.
TONIGHT, Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 7:30pm at our Colfax Avenue store, Elliott Holt will be reading and discussing her debut book.
This event is free and open to the public.
Ten years later, Sarah is about to graduate from college when she receives a mysterious letter from Moscow suggesting that Jenny's death might have been a hoax. She sets off to the former Soviet Union in search of the truth, but the more she delves into her personal Cold War history, the harder it is to separate facts from propaganda.
You Are One of Them is a taut, moving debut about the ways in which we define ourselves against others and the secrets we keep from those who are closest to us. In her insightful forensic of a mourned friendship, Holt illuminates the long lasting sting of abandonment and the measures we take to bring back those we have lost.
Read an interview with the author HERE.
This event is free and open to the public.
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