Twenty Letters to a Friend

by Svetlana Alliluyeva
Hennepin County Library hardcover 246 pages
genre: memoir

I was so curious about this book after I read Stalin's Daughter, but now it doesn't interest me. I only read the first letter about her father's death. Perhaps it's the busy-ness of the start of the school year, but I just don't feel as though I have the time to dedicate to reading this right now. I do like the fact that she was able to publish a book and express herself. I cannot imagine having lived such a strange life, with the repressiveness of the Soviet regime (that her own dad created!) and yet the privileges that came with being Stalin's daughter. Perhaps another day I will delve.