The unloved and impoverished Russian girl Anastasia, by sheer wit and audacity, turns her life around. Nastya's soul-mate, her first and only doll, tells us the story. She takes us to Siberia, Poland, and Israel; she walks us through a communal apartment in the Soviet Ukraine and a beautiful house in Bel Air; she shares with us the lives of three generations of two families; she vividly describes unspeakable hardships of Anastasia's life; she powerfully depicts Anastasia's courage to escape from the Soviet Union into a new country and her strength to build a new life; and she brilliantly...