A Toast to My Mother is a satirical take on author's childhood behind the Iron Curtain. The year is 1968 and Oleg Gold begins his journey through life inside his Soviet mama's belly where feedings are endless and buoyancy is of the most genteel character. Well, almost. Unless his student mama has failed to, yet again, prepare for her class in Communism 101. Facing the real world is no cupcakes either where this little Communist's dreams are crashed when Oleg is forced to participate in the most treasonous act of all - immigration to where the Capitalist Pigs roam (the degenerate West). Before...