"I wanted - and still want - to tell my mother's story. She fled Stalin's army in 1944, leaving Latvia, which was to be occupied by the Soviets for the next 50 years, and arrived to the U.S. when she was 11."

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About Amity Gaige

Amity Gaige is an American novelist and a Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction. She has published multiple novels and has taught English at Yale University.

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