

Stalina
Author: Emily Rubin
Narrator: Laural Merlington
Unabridged: 6 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 12/11/2012
Categories: Fiction, Jewish Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Emily Rubin
Narrator: Laural Merlington
Unabridged: 6 hr 39 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 12/11/2012
Categories: Fiction, Jewish Fiction, Literary Fiction
Emily Rubin’s fiction has been published in the Red Rock Review, Confrontations, and HAPPY. She is a past nominee for the Pushcart Prize. In 2005, she began producing Dirty Laundry: Loads of Prose, a reading series that takes place in Laundromats around the United States. She teaches writing workshops and is a television stage manager. She divides her time between New York City and Columbia County, New York with her husband, Leslie, and their dog, Sebastian.
This was really bad. I did not enjoy it, and only read the whole thing because I wanted to see if anything was actually going to happen. I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 because the author did do a good job of setting scenes and I really felt like I was at that motel front desk with Stalina. I just wa......more
Stalina is named after Stalin by her mother, partly to protect her since she was a Jew in the Soviet Union, but also because her mother, though afraid of Stalin, is nevertheless a communist. Stalina trains as a chemist in the Soviet Union, but when she moves to the United States in 1991 finds that th......more
I found this book, signed by the author in a Little Library. It is definitely unusual. A Jewish woman, Stalina, leaves her native Russia after the end of the Soviet Union. She ends up working at "short stay motel" in Connecticut. Written in the first person, she makes many comparisons between the US......more
“Rubin has created an immigrant tale as forceful, unique, and surprising as her unforgettable heroine.” —Chronogram“A marvelous, captivating debut novel.” —Russian Life Magazine“Rubin’s first novel about a Russian woman’s adventures in America after the fall of the Soviet Union is teasingly matter-of-fact and cat-claw smart…Mordantly funny, deliciously human, Rubin’s tale of a self-possessed survivor brings zest to the literature of immigration and adaptation.” —Booklist