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...never know at which crossroads you made rights decisions and wrong decisions,” Boym says. “Life takes control of itself...
Mimicking the struggles of everyday life, Boym takes the reader down each thread of plot and recreates the grueling process of discovering history. “It’s a way of exploring the roads one cannot take in real life, but that continue to haunt us,” she says...
...Boym says this struggle for personal identity mirrors her own quest for self in the United States. Born in the Soviet Union at the height of Cold War tensions, Boym fled as a teenager. She says her personal biography demands from her a certain amount of exploration. She identifies herself as a refugee stuck somewhere between her history in Russia and her new life in America...
Though she finds herself more and more estranged from her Russian roots, Boym says that she still does not feel wholly at home in America. She says that she finds herself leading the same kind of double life, as her characters...
Balancing her questions and curiosity, Boym says that the immigrant experience teaches double consciousness. “You exist in two different worlds and self translation is always hard,” she says. “You’re always estranged from both cultures...