New Autobiography Recounts One Woman's Escape from the USSR with Her...

Marina Berkovich’s new memoir, “My Life through My Dresses: Growing Up Socialist” (published by Archway Press), shares the author’s reminiscences of living 18 years under the Soviet socialist rule as an unwanted child of dysfunctional parents, growing up in the institutionalized anti-Semitism of Ukraine. The book is available for purchase at: https://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Through-Dresses-Socialist-ebook/dp/B07FVNNYCF.

Berkovich details her life growing up in the former USSR, where she was exposed to the socialist system, institutionalized discrimination and the shortcomings of her own dysfunctional family. The more she was prepared by everyone around her to be a good Soviet citizen, the more Berkovich says she understood that the world around her did not have what she desired most — freedom. Together with her mother, they made the decision to surrender citizenship and exit the USSR as refugees.

“Value every breath of freedom you are living,” Berkovich advises. “Do not squander it.”

“My Life through My Dresses”
By Marina Berkovich
Hardcover | 5.5 x 8.5 in | 296 pages | ISBN 9781480862425
Softcover | 5.5 x 8.5 in | 296 pages | ISBN 9781480862418
E-Book | 296 pages | ISBN 9781480862432
Available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble

About the Author
Marina Berkovich was born in Kiev, USSR, and spent the first part of her life there. In 1979, she and her mother became stateless refugees on the road to the United States. “My Life through My Dresses” is her first book in prose. Her book of Russian poetry, “One-Way Correspondence” was published in 2001.

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