This book is a true-to-life collection of 30 short stories from physicist and electrical engineer Roman Litovsky chronicling his family's harrowing emigration journey in 1989 from Ukraine to the United States during the height of the impending collapse of the USSR. It details his life in Kyiv, traveling throughout Europe to gain freedom from the oppressive Soviet regime, settling in the U.S., and his life after that with an extraordinary engineering career at a prominent U.S. electro-acoustic company. It also provides an account of his family health problems, believed to have stemmed from radiation exposure from the 1984 Chornobyl nuclear disaster and the tragedy of his youngest son's death, to which this book is dedicated.
This book also talks about American anti-Semitism, stemming from Jewish reform synagogues that accepted politically correct anti-Israel stances with hypocritical morals and values. There are also stories about our American educational system, producing the mediocrity of students and the medical system corrupted by the financial establishments, with implications for the lives of the author's family affected by all these inevitable perils.
Suppose you like richly detailed settings and stories of determination and spirit despite many obstacles and oppression. In that case, you'll love Roman Litovsky's sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking accounts in this poignant collection about his life.
