Growing up in a colorless housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, the narrator escapes into dreams inspired by her parents' stories and her own reading. Years later, while working as an English instructor, she is drawn into an affair with a Russian immigrant.
Growing up in a colorless housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, the narrator escapes into dreams inspired by her parents' stories and her own reading. Years later, while working as an English instructor, she is drawn into an affair with a Russian immigrant.