"An Un-American Childhood" is the thoughtful memoir of Ann Kimmage's experiences as a child and young woman in communist Czechoslovakia and China. In 1950, while McCarthyism reigned in America, Kimmage's parents, Abe and Belle Chapman, were active, loyal members of the American Communist Party. Her family lived in Queens, New York, until they were forced underground, illegally fleeing first to Mexico and ultimately Prague, Czechoslovakia, which at the time was in the early stages of its communist revolution. There, the Chapmans became the Capeks--a mystery to their new neighbors, but Czech...
"An Un-American Childhood" is the thoughtful memoir of Ann Kimmage's experiences as a child and young woman in communist Czechoslovakia and China. ...
