TY  - BOOK
AU  - Litman,Ellen
TI  - Mannequin girl: a novel 
SN  - 0393069281 (hardcover)
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton & Company
KW  - Jews, Russian
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Moscow
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Parent and child
KW  - Scoliosis in children
KW  - Success
KW  - Young women
KW  - Psychological fiction
N2  - Growing up in Soviet Russia, Kat Knopman worships her parents, Jewish intellectuals who teach literature at a Moscow school, run a drama club, and dabble in political radicalism. When Kat is diagnosed with rapidly-progressing scoliosis, the trajectory of her life changes and she finds herself at a different institution-- a school-sanatorium for children with spinal ailments. Confined to a brace, surrounded by unsympathetic peers, Kat embarks on a quest to prove that she can be as exceptional as her parents despite her physical limitations, her Jewishness, and her suspicion that her beloved parents are in fact flawed
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