A new novel by Yelena Litinskaya, "Woman in a Free Space" covers eight years in the life of a young woman who had to go through all the circles of hell: antisemitism in Brezhnev's USSR, her breakup with a lover, a failed marriage, separation from parents, immigration hardships, joys and sorrows of single motherhood, the persistent search for personal happiness and professional self-affirmation before she finally found long-awaited freedom of private space in America.