Table of Contents
Author's Note ix
Prologue 1
Part 1
The Best Parades in the Whole Damn World 7
The Black Witch Comes to Kharkov 18
Oleg and the Mirror 27
Disarming the Adversaries 31
A Marked Mikhail Will Destroy Russia 38
Something Was Different; Something Was in the Air 48
Land of Endless Twilight 53
$130, Two Suitcases, One Piece of Jewelry, Nothing of Value 63
Into the Steppe 79
Part 2
Dozens of Sentinel Grandmas 103
Where People Have No Names 121
The Forester 131
Waking the Nomads 144
Pennies and Peach Slices 149
A Layover in Purgatory 161
Eva 168
A Bleak, Man-Made Horizon 173
Nineteen Million in the Hole 179
The Bosnians Don't Come Out at Night 183
A Simple Request 190
Part 3
This Ain't Ellis Island 201
Refugee Sponsorship for Dummies 208
Where Else Does She Belong? 214
Unfinished Business, Part I: Getting to America 222
Where the Weak Are Killed and Eaten 230
There Are No Cats in America 242
Where Am I and Why Do I Smell Like Bananas? 249
Unfinished Business, Part II: Staying in America 263
Alicia 269
One Man, One Jacket 275
Kilcoyne 281
Epilogue 295
Acknowledgments 305