You Are One of Them: A Novel about Secrets, Betrayal, and the Friend Who Got Away POL042020 one that carries the reader

one that carries the reader along every twist and turn of the empress's often thorny path

and the adolescent struggle for self-identity

New York Times 02/11/1996 pg

But the problems confronting these new democracies are staggering

Drawing on diaries and letters

You Are One of Them: A Novel about Secrets, Betrayal, and the Friend Who Got Away POL042020 one that carries the reader"A hugely absorbing first novel from a writer with a fluid, vivid style and a rare knack for balancing the pleasure of entertainment with the deeper gratification of insight. More, please." Maggie Shipstead, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "A story about Russia, the United States, friendship, identity, defection, and deception that is smart, startling, and worth reading regardless of when you were born." Kathryn Schulz, New York