In 'Winterland,' a Soviet Union gymnast navigates a grueling responsibility
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The Secret Life of Anya, a Book Review
The book begins with a bit of a mystery. Anya's mother, who was a former ballet dancer for the Bolshoi, disappears. She is someone who endured 10 years in the Gulag camp right outside of Nurelsk. And so she understands just the unbelievably cruel existence that these forced labor camps were.
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