From the author. Self-publishing writers should not have a problem with self-reviewing their books. There is a risk, of course, that this may end up with "self-reading." But let me try, anyway.

This is a memoir of a former Soviet physicist of Jewish descent who came to the USA as a tourist and became a financial quant. It's mostly an emigre story. It has some sad pages about my relatives who fled from Nazi Germany and landed in Gulag. My descendants won't find their roots on Ancestry.com; I've written this piece for them, too. This book is also a tale of a man who wanted to be a scientist...