TY - BOOK AU - Gorokhova,Elena TI - Russian tattoo SN - 9780099592051 (pbk.) : AV - E184.R9 U1 - 305.8917 GOR 23 PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - Windmill Books KW - Gorokhova, Elena. KW - Gorokhova, Elena KW - Russian Americans KW - Biography KW - Immigrants KW - United States KW - eflch KW - ukslc N2 - When Elena Gorokhova arrives in America, the only link back to her Russian past is a suitcase filled with twenty kilograms of what used to be her life. Navigating a country she had been taught to fear, Elena begins to carve out a new life in an unfamiliar world. Before the birth of Elena's daughter, her mother comes to visit and stays for twenty-four years. Elena, must struggle with the challenge of raising an American daughter whilst living with her controlling mother, a mirror image of her Motherland ER -