First Papers
  • Published:
    Jan-2012
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  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    504
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For Stefan and Alexandra Ivarin, who moved from Russia to America nearly twenty years ago, becoming “American” is a lifelong project

Stefan and Alexandra Ivarin emigrated to America at the end of the nineteenth century. Russian Jewish socialists, the Ivarins are now established in a Long Island home designed, somewhat haphazardly, by Stefan. Despite their attempts at assimilation, the Ivarins find themselves still struggling to find a balance between their Russian roots and their American lives, between their past and their future -- and those of their children.

Based in part upon Hobson's own childhood, First Papers is a tender portrait of the tension between embracing a foreign culture full of opportunity while longing for a lost homeland.
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    • First Edition
    • Jan-2012
    • Open Road Publishing
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1453238778
    • ISBN13: 9781453238776
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    • Jan-2012
    • Open Road Publishing
    • eBook (Kindle)



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