To the Midnight Sun: A Story of Revolution, Exile and Return - Paperback

by Stephen Saletan (Author)

In a quiet midcentury American suburb, a young boy waits eagerly every Friday for a visit from his Russian grandmother and tales of her youthful exploits with fellow revolutionaries fighting the oppressive regime of the Tsar.

At the age of thirteen, he travels with her to the crumbling but beautiful city of Leningrad, where he meets his Russian relatives living under the shadow of Communism in a ramshackle communal apartment in a once-grand apartment house from the city's cosmopolitan golden age.

Thirty years later, after the breakup of the Soviet Union, he returns once again to the newly renamed city of St. Petersburg to seek the deeper truths behind his grandmother's stories and to reconnect with the legacy that shaped him as a child.

To The Midnight Sun is an inspiring story of family, history, and the search for connections across place and time that help make us who we are.