02052cam a2200313 4500 551813689 TxAuBib 20220413120000.0 220301s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2022008832 9781542033879 HRD 24.95 154203387X HRD 24.95 TxAuBib Gorokhova, Elena. A train to Moscow [BOOK] : a novel / Elena Gorokhova. 1st ed. Seattle : Lake Union Publishing, [2022] 303 pages ; 22 cm. Includes discussion questions. "In a small, provincial town behind the Iron Curtain, Sasha lives in a house full of secrets, one of which is her own dream of becoming an actress. When she leaves for Moscow to audition for drama school, she defies her mother and grandparents and abandons her first love, Andrei. Before she leaves, Sasha discovers the hidden war journal of her uncle Kolya, an artist still missing in action years after the war has ended. His pages expose the official lies and the forbidden truth of Stalin's brutality. Kolya's revelations and his tragic love story guide Sasha through drama school and cement her determination to live a thousand lives onstage. After graduation, she begins acting in Leningrad, where Andrei, now a Communist Party apparatchik, becomes a censor of her work. As a past secret comes to light, Sasha's ambitions converge with Andrei's duties, and Sasha must decide if her dreams are truly worth the necessary sacrifice and if, as her grandmother likes to say, all will indeed be well"-- Provided by publisher. 20220413. Stalin, Joseph 1879-1953 Fiction. Actresses Fiction. Diaries Fiction. Secrecy Fiction. Soviet Union History 1925-1953 Fiction. Soviet Union History 1953-1985 Fiction. Historical fiction.